Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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I think that liberals need to grow up.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.
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True he was a vocal miracle But that's only secondary It's the soul of the monarch butterfly That I find a little bit scary
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Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
