Vaclav Havel Quotes
Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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A great economy requires great public schools.
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Giving kids the chance to see live theatre should not just be free, it should be compulsory.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.
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Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.
