"If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings."

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Source : Ivan Klíma, Paul R. Wilson (1994). “The spirit of Prague: and other essays”, Granta (NY)

Ivan KlÃma

#Memories Quotes #Being Me Quotes #Forget Quotes

“I like colorful stuff. I like wearing stuff that nobody is wearing. That's why I wear the bear hat. I'll wear the whole mink.”

Source : "And Then French Montana Styled GQ". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. July 20, 2012.
“I love modeling but also see it as a platform for the million other things I want to achieve and create in life.”
“The essentials of leadership are all about the use of one's talent in the interests of society.”
“There's too much money and too many nice guys around.”
“Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.”
“Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more than the sum of its material characteristics and not simply a reflection of everyday life.”
“Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.”

Source : Dianne Wiest's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 30, 1987.
“The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.”

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