Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Saint Augustine -
In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
Verne Troyer -
Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
Salman Rushdie -
Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
Hans Zimmer -
Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
Aberjhani -
That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.
Manuel Moroun
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
Gabourey Sidibe -
I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.
Carlton Cuse -
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
Hal Holbrook -
When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.
Sam Shepard -
I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.
Kacey Musgraves -
I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
Karin Slaughter
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It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
Caitlin Flanagan -
I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
Wade Boggs -
All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.
Carl von Clausewitz -
If we did but know how we rush into one evil while seeking to avoid another, we should have no resolution to shun any thing.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary.
Adam Smith
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I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do.
Ali Banisadr -
Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.
Brian Greene -
Maud Muller looked and sighed: 'Ah me!That I the Judge's bride might be!He would dress me up in silks so fine,And praise and toast me at his wine.'
Vanity -
All the technology going into self-driving cars is robotic technology. It's not automotive. That explains why some of the traditional automotive players didn't develop this technology.
Karl Iagnemma -
The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.
Franz Boas -
Right is its own defense.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht