Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
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Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
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I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
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I am a bad actress. I know I am. I am realistic. I can't even lie properly; how can you expect me to act?
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I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
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Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.
