Berthold Auerbach Quotes
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I have a love for boxing.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
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Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
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Intentions count in your actions.
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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If there are any who believe that immigrants to this country, most of whom have already become British citizens, could be forcibly deported because they are coloured people...then that I must repudiate, absolutely and completely.
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Such as harm is when it hurts me not, is good which avails me not.
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His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
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Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.
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I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
