Czech Quotes

• I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

  Martina Hingis

  Parent, Speak, Born

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• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  "Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays Vol. 1 1852-1890".

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• According to polls, a majority (around 60+ percent) opposes the radar base. But it's not necessarily the sensible part of the Czech population. The demonstrations against the base are usually organized by communists, Islamists, and "peaceful feminists" (which is fortunately not a numerous group).

  Lubos Motl

  Feminist, Peaceful, Majority

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• The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Country, People, Musician

  Antonín Dvořák, Otakar Šourek (1954). “Antonín Dvořák: letters and reminiscences”, Da Capo Pr

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• Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born.

  Milan Kundera

  Catholic, Prague, Empires

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• Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And so, speaking out and having that strong moral fiber, people just knew that he told the truth to people who had only heard lies. And so I think his - that's his legacy.

  Judy Woodruff

  Strong, Lying, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• American girls are much more financially savvy - for example, if a girl went to Paris and she was going to do a fragrance campaign, she would say she wouldn't do it for less than half-a-million dollars. Whereas a girl from the Czech Republic would do it for $100,000. I think that's a really big imbalance that created the demise of the modeling industry - and it also created a gap in giving girls an opportunity to become or gain super-status.

  Michael Flutie

  Girl, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?

  Richard Kadrey

  Stars, Zombie, Killers

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• Czech Republics worst pick up line: What's a nice place like this doing around a women like you?

  Franz Wisner

  Nice, Czech Republic, Lines

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• There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Country, Teacher, Passing On

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• Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Real, Beer, Glasses

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust.

  Josef Skvorecky

  Holocaust, Important, Fiction

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• The Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now.

  John Motson

  Czech Republic, Way, Behinds

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• Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Powerful, Czech Republic, Political

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• We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Party, Believe

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• Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the world of the Presidency, I think of him.

  Vaclav Havel

  Thinking, Escaping, World

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• I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

  Brian Eno

  Country, Czech Republic, People

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• There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the Czech Republic or Hungary. They are an ethnic minority that in Europe everyone loves to hate.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Country, Hate, Czech Republic

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• We're not going to walk into the World Cup thinking, 'Ah, you know, we beat Norway 5-0 and we beat Japan so now we're great and we're untouchable'. It's a reality check for a few guys and that's a good thing at this time so it doesn't happen on June 12 (when the U.S. team opens World Cup play against the Czech Republic).

  Kasey Keller

  Team, Reality, Thinking

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• We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Czech Republic, Prague

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• She's a legend. She's really huge in the Czech Republic. Everywhere, actually.

  Petra Kvitova

  Czech Republic, Legends, Huge

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• But definitely I was in the zone in the match today. I was still thinking it's the final and I knew the emotions. It's a little bit like Fed Cup when I'm playing in the Czech Republic and I feel the crowd. My stomach is a little bit funny - it's just goosebumps. But when I won the first set, I said to myself, 'Okay, I still have to do the same work.' I was worried I couldn't do it for the whole match, but I did it.

  Petra Kvitova

  Thinking, Czech Republic, Crowds

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• I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Eye, College

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• Ours is a war not against a religion, not against the Muslim faith. But ours is a war against individuals who absolutely hate what America stands for, and hate the freedom of the Czech Republic. And therefore, we must work together to defend ourselves. And by remaining strong and united and tough, we'll prevail.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Hate, War

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