Vaclav Havel Quotes
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Being evil is easy.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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They hate whom they fear.
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
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Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.
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Libya is a great country, a respectful country, and the Libyan people are great people.
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The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.
