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"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."
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"In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things."
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"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."
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"Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office."
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"He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief."
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"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."
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"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."
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"One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it."
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"As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this."
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
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"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
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"I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do."
Government
"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining."
Reading
"People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways."
People
"To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means."
Old
"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."
Office
"That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them."
Policy
"By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market."
Time
"What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome."
Economy
"Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents."
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"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents."
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