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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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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The ultimate test on the way to establishing an ideal civilization encouraging ideal human behavior was to look bravely beyond gender, color, ethnic origin, religious difference, and class distinctions to discover and honor the value of each unique individual.
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He gets sex, she gets sex; if that is considered unequal, no wonder men are afraid of commitment.
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I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.
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I especially don't like the graphic violence against women and children often depicted in novels such as 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and others. I'm not sure if it's being done just to entertain or whether it really is necessary for the characters involved.
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It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.
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I'm never certain how to respond when an advocate on the other side of a case calls up images of patriots over the centuries who have sacrificed themselves to preserve our democracy.
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Und minder ist oft mehr, wie Lessings Prinz uns lehrt.
