Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
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Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
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The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.
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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
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I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
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The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes science, sometimes all it takes is a film. The film itself is less and less spectacular because I think very strongly now the more spectacular you are, the more you are absorbed by the things you are trying to destroy.
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Now if you were the kind of man to risk all this love we had, you would be crazy.
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Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
