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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A spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny; if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
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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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I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
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The sociologist permits himself to see only what is acceptable to his colleagues. (p. 370)
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Of course. They're disgusting. What sort of people are they? I never knew what they were doing. I've been told recently that what they do is terrible. Disgusting.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
