Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right.
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I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
