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.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Like
  • Try
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Success
  • Science
  • Religious

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
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  • Over

• 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.

  

  Lara Stone
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• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
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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!

  

  Manika
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• I'm interested in playing, not working.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

  

  Gary Wright
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  • Son
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• Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • America
  • Better
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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.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Manti Te'o
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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.

  

  Sallust
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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.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Heart
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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.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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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.

  

  Samuel Morse
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• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

  

  Olga Korbut
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• The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• What if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of his grave, and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Dream
  • Universe
  • Forever

• Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • You
  • Better

• The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

  

  Pam Grier
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  • Loved

• We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
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• Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.

  

  Arthur W. Pink
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  • Bought
  • Earned

• A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
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