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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Once we were very different - our psyches constantly at war - so we struck a bargain, a spiritual compromise. We would grow more like each other, there would be a balance, but a bargain with a demon is no bargain at all. Demons cheat; it is their nature. Oh yes, I have grown more like Etrigan, and he… he too has grown more like Etrigan.
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Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.
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I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.
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I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
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Chopin was the first piano composer who knew exactly how to make piano sound reach fullness, radiance and grandness. What to regard and what, by all means, to avoid. Chopin was keenly aware of the overtones and he did take care of them so artfully.
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Und minder ist oft mehr, wie Lessings Prinz uns lehrt.
