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 could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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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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With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.
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There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn't nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy.
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The good news is in the record business, they only count your successes.
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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.
