Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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I always knew I'd go to space.
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People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
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I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.
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Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.
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I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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The circus is a global theme. It exists in all parts of the world - maybe not in Africa, but it exists in Asia in all parts. In Latin America, it's difficult to find a person who hasn't gone to the circus.
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New Directions is a reviewer’s nightmare; it’s enough punishment to read it all, without writing about it too.
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It's not going to stop until 'we' stop it. And it's not just white man that's doing this to Brenda. It's not just white man that's keeping us trapped. It's 'black.' And we have to find the new African in everybody... But before we can be African, we gotta be black first.
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In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.
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My father started me singing in church.
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I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense of nervousness about the book industry. It's not like before. Not that I knew very much about what it was like because I was a newcomer to it, but I get that feeling that people are more conservative in their book choices and what they are going to publish and what's a sure sell. As opposed to - just like in the economy - a sense of luxury and sense of risk taking ten years ago.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
