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"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."
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"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."
Control
"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."
Hope
"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."
Now
"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone."
Democracy
"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris."
Politics
"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."
People
"I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival."
Politics
"The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself."
Character
"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."
Work
"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."
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"Mood has to be controlled.Otherwise, it's your master."
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Personal Development
"If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder."
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"It is possible to be a puppet on a string, controlled by hidden forces."
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"Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."
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"Through all life changes , God is in control."
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"God's goal is to establish His righteousness on this earth."
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"Ambalal Muljibhai' (Dada's relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and 'we' (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should not be scorned at, at all."
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"A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him."
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"What you don't know, you can't tell. Or made to tell."
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"There is always the potential to manage every element of your reality."
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