Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
Of all the works of man I like bestThose which have been used.The copper pots with their dents and flattened edgesThe knives and forks whose wooden handlesHave been worn away by many hands: such formsSeemed to me the noblest.Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
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I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.
Tavi Gevinson -
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
Walter Mosley -
This town was built on nepotism.
Damon Wayans -
When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
A. S. Byatt -
I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
Laura Kightlinger -
Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.
Ted Strickland
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
Madchen Amick -
My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
Faye Marsay -
When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
Faith Hill -
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
Vanessa Hudgens
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I didn't think of myself as writing 'cli-fi,' but I'll take the label. I'll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
Bear Grylls -
We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
Gavin Newsom -
Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.
Vince Gill -
As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
Katarina Witt -
When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.
Sam Hunt -
You trying to make me crazy?” “Everyone needs a hobby.
Nalini Singh -
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
Northrop Frye -
The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
Felix Frankfurter -
I'm not sure I'm adult yet.
Johnny Depp -
Of all the works of man I like bestThose which have been used.The copper pots with their dents and flattened edgesThe knives and forks whose wooden handlesHave been worn away by many hands: such formsSeemed to me the noblest.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht