Vaclav Havel Quotes
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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I'm a pretty hands-off director. I let people try things, and if it gets over-jokey, then I'll try and rein it in a little bit.
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Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
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America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
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Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.
