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Quotes by Czechoslovakian Authors
"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."
"Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do."
"No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too."
"But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs."
"The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped."
"When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York."
"I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments."
"I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies."
"I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style."
"Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open."
"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
"As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it."
"If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can."
"The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass."
"The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both."
"Whether they knew of didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. (...) by beating himself on the chest and proclaiming, "My conscience is clear! I did not know! I was a believer!" Isn't his "I did not know I was a believer!" at the very root of his irreparable guilt?"
"There is nothing harder to explain than humor."
"Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!"
"If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!"
"Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one."
"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."
"But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house."
"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity."
"The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence."
"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes."
"Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen."
"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."
"It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture."
"Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness."
"I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies."
"I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in."
"Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's."
"Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students."
"If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation."
"Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything."
"I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes."
"I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be."
"My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul."
"Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by everyone by displaying his contempt for convention. One day Socrates met him and said: 'I see your vanity through the hole in your mantle.' Your dirt too, sir, is vanity, and your vanity is dirty."
"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."
"I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now."
"My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian."
"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."
"But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich."
"The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win."
"My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco."
"Memories are doing funny things to us."
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