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Vaclav Havel Quotes

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: leader
Nationality: czechoslovakian
Birth: October 5, 1936

Topics

Winning Intellectual Always Side

Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.

Music Art School Brother High School

I'm a fan at heart.

When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.

Michael Feldman

People Me Baby Fat Doing Remember

We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion.

Stephen J. Dubner

Good Father Silence Parents Painting

We had friendly and pleasant relationships with all that worked in our films - many happy memories.

Memories Happy Relationships Friendly

Though we endow them with human features - heads, faces, heels, toes - golf clubs are profoundly inhuman tools.

Tools Golf Human Heels Faces Toes

The false separation between living and giving must end.

Simon Mainwaring

End Giving Living Separation False

I come from a place where when you shake someone's hand, it is a deal.

Someone You Place Hand Where Deal

It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie seriously because everything is heightened. A kid being bitten by a radioactive spider and getting superpowers is kind of ridiculous.

Ridiculous Kind Seriously Difficult

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

Love Happy Mom Hair Blonde Being

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Exercise Result Reason Own Call

I went through a period when I did military roles and played basically someone who was unfit for military service.

Michael O'Keefe

Service Someone Military Through Who

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