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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Most of my supporters are people who actually know me. I just continue to do the best I can and I don't bother to try and respond to every little bit because the best response is just to keep on doing what you think is right.
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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
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I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel - very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.
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There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another tax bracket.
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Und minder ist oft mehr, wie Lessings Prinz uns lehrt.
