Karel Capek Quotes

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Karel Capek

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I never imagined people like Thanos and Warlock would be drawn into films. They're weird characters in weird stories. Luckily, the twisted kids who read those weird stories are now the twisted adults who are making movies.

Jim Starlin

PeopleWeirdNowMoviesNeverKids

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

Jim Sullivan

GoodTogetherMeBuildingGuitar

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

Joe Murray

SuccessArtMoneyStruggleDoing

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Jesse Helms

MeFindMadNewspaperSurprises

I would advise kids not to play any sports, such as tackle football, where they are exposed to repeated blows to the head.

Ann McKee

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In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that were fierce, furtive hunters, alert to the snapping of every twig, with coats that gave them good camouflage, would have been favored by evolution.

Sue Hubbell

GoodCatsFierceSurvivalEvolution

I have the best job in the whole world because I get paid to do something I love. How many people do you know who can say that?

Sondra Radvanovsky

LoveBestJobPeopleWorldYou

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Mignon McLaughlin

CourageSeeAroundGoesAnywayThem

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

Jonathan Haidt

PowerStressEqualityThinkBlind

My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.

Don McLean

MusicMyselfWritingThinkingWay

Standing up Global Services will accelerate our capabilities across all Boeing services and support areas - from our traditional parts, modifications, and upgrades business to strengthening our data analytics and information-based offerings.

Dennis Muilenburg

BusinessSupportDataWillUp

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.

Douglas Wilder

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