"I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email."

-- Garrett Hedlund

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“In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.”
“A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.”
“I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a scientist. When I do that, I see religion not denominationally, but in a more, let us say, deistic sense. I have been influence in my thinking by the writing of Einstein who has made remarks to the effect that when he contemplated the world he sensed an underlying Force much greater than any human force. I feel very much the same. There is a sense of awe, a sense of reverence, and a sense of great mystery.”
“One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.”
“Everything that happens is either a blessing, which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing.”
“I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.”
“I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.”
“You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”

Source : "The Power of the Powerless". Book by Václav Havel, 1979.

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