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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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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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.
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We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
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If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
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Man must be free of it all, of his bad conscience and of the bad salvation from this conscience in order to become in truth the way. Now, he no longer promises others the fulfillment of his duties, but promises himself the fulfillment of man.
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without any artificial delays, without any artificial obstacles.
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I get excited by being in the studio and could never get burnt out in there.
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Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
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There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
