Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.
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Doesn't everyone hate Kristen Stewart?
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
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If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.
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I'm really comfortable with myself.
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I believe in the institution of marriage, but one can't fix a time for it. Please don't predict it for me.
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I still remember 2002. It's a very hard time for Hong Kong industry, no movies in Hong Kong, and also at this moment I start my new company, so many people said, 'You're crazy.'
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When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.
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I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.
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The boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.
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Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
