Vaclav Havel Quotes
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.
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You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
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Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.
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Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
