Bertha von Suttner Quotes
Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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I always tell people if you think you are susceptible to a blood clot, go check with your doctor.
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I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would be my advice: Stay vital. It's about saying 'no' and asking the tough questions and believing in yourself when no one else will, but you have to know the rules to break them.
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
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Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
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The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.
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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
