Vaclav Havel Quotes
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
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Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.
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Guys like you make life easy for some women.
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One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
