Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
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I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it.
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Honesty is very sexy.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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We had admired the presidential palace and parliament houses, paused beside the striking India Gate, inspected the 16th Century Humayun's Tomb-a forerunner to the Taj Mahal-and cruised past scores of international embassies.
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A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document. But we have a long way to go to get our modern privacy laws in line with modern technology.
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Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.
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Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.
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We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.
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When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
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In the mid-to-late 1990s, I was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation working with Jana Matthews on 'learning programs for high growth entrepreneurs.'
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
