Vaclav Havel Quotes
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.
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Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.
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Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.
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I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.
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Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
