Vaclav Havel Quotes
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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My favorite part of 'Jessica Jones' is... all of it.
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It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.
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And, I was really impressed with how beautiful our country was and how friendly the people were.
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Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.
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People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.
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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
