Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you've written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.
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In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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I write very slowly.
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Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.
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'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; it's about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way.
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If I had to name my favorite media personality, it would be a tie between Jon Stewart and Trey Parker/Matt Stone. Honest, wise, funny, and right. Sam Sifton was right up there when he was writing food criticism for the 'New York Times.'
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I work with Ninja, Ninja works with me.
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I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'll memorize it. I don't even practice the acting. I'll just do it the day, and it will just come to me.
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A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.
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Change does happen, you know?
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We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.
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Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
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America was entering the age not just of the automobile but of the retarded attention span.
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There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.
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What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
