Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.
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I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.
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Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.
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My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
