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Small: Many times the players get in there and its just about as well as they could have done, and other times they g
Ivan Lendl
"Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win"
Ivan Lendl, Athlete
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Small: I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange
Ivan Lendl
"I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange"
Ivan Lendl, Athlete
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Small: But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more sh
Ivan Lendl
"But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed"
Ivan Lendl, Athlete
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Small: What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come
"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come"
Emil Zatopek, Athlete
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Small: We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to exp
"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon"
Emil Zatopek, Athlete
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Small: If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your fri
Ivan Lendl
"If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do"
Ivan Lendl, Athlete
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Small: I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it t
Ivan Lendl
"I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now"
Ivan Lendl, Athlete
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Small: I dont make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time fo
Ivan Lendl
"I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that"
Ivan Lendl, Athlete
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Small: Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasnt always on defensi
Ivan Lendl
"Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot"
Ivan Lendl, Athlete
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Small: I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course its personal preference
Ivan Lendl
"I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it's personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on"
Ivan Lendl, Athlete
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Small: Its at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys
"It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys"
Emil Zatopek, Athlete
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Small: But its very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and its very difficult just to go o
Ivan Lendl
"But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it"
Ivan Lendl, Athlete
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Small: When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 m
"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow"
Emil Zatopek, Athlete
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Small: The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. Hes the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents
"The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on"
Emil Zatopek, Athlete
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Small: My running was very simple it was out of myself
"My running was very simple; it was out of myself"
Emil Zatopek, Athlete
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Small: People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who we
"People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining
"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was t
"I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market
"By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: What my day is like depends on where I am
"What my day is like depends on where I am"
Daniela Pestova, Model
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Small: For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar
"For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar"
Daniela Pestova, Model
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Small: It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you
"It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome
"What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, an
"We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming
"Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach
"To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had alrea
"Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a
"To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut t
"That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker
"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low pric
"We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents
"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately my colleagues w
"Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms"
Vaclav Klaus, Statesman
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Small: If Im on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, were on
"If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation"
Daniela Pestova, Model
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Small: Flying is awful, theres nothing to do when youre up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit
"Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified"
Daniela Pestova, Model
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Small: I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper
"I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed"
Daniela Pestova, Model
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Small: But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so its hard to say no. I cant eve
"But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop"
Daniela Pestova, Model
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Small: The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently
"The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently"
Herbert Lom, Actor
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Small: A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience"
Karel Reisz, Director
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Small: When I model I pretty much go blank. You cant think too much or it doesnt work
"When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work"
Paulina Porizkova, Model
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