Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
The rainNever falls upwards.When the woundStops hurtingWhat hurts isThe scar.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
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When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
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A person is a process, one that leads to death...
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The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord’s voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. Its really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.
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Just because you have kids doesn't mean to say you need time off. I have a lot of time off anyway. If I'm promoting my book, like, for the next two weeks, I'm flat out. But then I'm off again. And when you've got the next product, it's the same; you just condense it into a couple of weeks.
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No one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
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Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
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George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.
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Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.
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The rainNever falls upwards.When the woundStops hurtingWhat hurts isThe scar.
