Christoph Martin Wieland Quotes
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
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My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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I am a straightforward man.
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All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.
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'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'
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I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.
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No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the dream of that, but we all know this dream may be not possible. So here we have the key of the ambiguity of the atmosphere of my films. Is it possible, this dream? Is it as funny as it seems, or is it tragic?
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I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.
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Und minder ist oft mehr, wie Lessings Prinz uns lehrt.
