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"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."
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"Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that."
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"Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good."
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"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."
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"There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders."
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"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."
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"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."
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"Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis."
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"It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well."
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"There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail."
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"The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none."
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"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."
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"And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever."
Lie
"Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig."
Hope
"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
Reality
"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."
Work
"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
Film
"Memories are doing funny things to us."
Fun
"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."
Experience
"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."
Control
"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris."
Politics
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