Milos Forman Quotes

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.

Milos Forman

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Hearing anyone think that I'm any form of sexy or handsome is incredibly flattering.

John Krasinski

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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

ManSanePleasuresAffordAscetic

What I was really saying in 'The Examined Life' was that I was no longer as hardcore a libertarian as I had been before.

Robert Nozick

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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

John Woolman

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Just as future eclipses of the Sun and Moon are indicated in the present relations of those bodies, so are future earthly lives indicated in what now lives within us.

Rudolf Steiner

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I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

Diablo Cody

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When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes didn't need many physical tics or personality disorders; the very concept of a consulting detective was still fresh and original in 1887.

Christopher Fowler

PersonalityFamousSayWhyNeedLeg

None of my films are 'Pollyanna.' They're not little deers walking around with butterflies and stuff. That's not what I do.

Corbin Bernsen

WalkingLittleButterfliesStuff

I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.

Chuck Klosterman

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It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.

Bob Kane

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I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

Brie Larson

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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Aristotle

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