Vaclav Havel Quotes
Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.
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Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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He would not journey without a foot. He would not breed nuts without trees, Like seeking for ants in the heath. Like an instrument of foolish spoil, Like the retinue of an army without a head, Like feeding the unsheltered on lichen.
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The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.
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You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.
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I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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People who get eyeball arthritis see only what they're supposed to see, like that TV screen.
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Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.
