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"And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know."
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"Never stop pushing for what you want! If something is truly important to you, stay diligent and find a way. Depending on whom you ask, the answer may be different. Never settle for the first answer! Do your own research, ask different people, go above other people's head if you have to. Sometimes it's necessary to push the envelope. Some people will purposely give you the wrong answer to try to stop you and/or hold you back. This, unfortunately, is a reality. Some people's intentions are all wrong. Be mindful that not everyone will have your best interest at heart."
"There is always the potential to manage every element of your reality."
"You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you."
"We don't like to admit it, but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. All truly civilized people " the ancients no less than us " have civilized themselves through the wilful repression of the old, animal self."
"I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front."
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"First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined."
"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris."
"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
"I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival."
"When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York."
"Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom."
"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone."
"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."
"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."
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