Vaclav Havel Quotes
There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I'm not super into sports.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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The art of biography seems to have fallen on evil times in England. … With us, the most delicate and humane of all the branches of the art of writing has been relegated to the journeymen of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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We can continue down our current path, in which the gears of this great democracy grind to a halt and our children accept a life of lower expectations; where politics is a zero-sum game where a few do very well while struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie - that’s one path. Or we can have the courage to change.
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Roy Moore was an embarrassment.
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Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?
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There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.
