Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
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From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
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In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals should be to eliminate and overcome these central institutions. And in recent years we have gained powerful new tools to do this, and most significant among those is the block chain, which is the software behind Bitcoin.
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Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.
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Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
