Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht

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• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Art
  • Best
  • Baby

• I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Guy

• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Nothing

• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Amazing

• You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Want
  • Clock

• Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Best
  • Red
  • Circle

• I'm in a really nice position because I can be selective with the modeling jobs that I do and just work with brands I'm passionate about. The two worlds balance out nicely for me because modeling is so social - it has travel, you meet people, it's extroverted. Whereas painting is very solitary - when I paint, I'm kind of in my own world.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Moment

• If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • Real
  • Control

• Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Work
  • Human
  • Brand

• Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Behavior

• When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Good
  • Important
  • Done

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Different
  • Fashion

• My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Book
  • Me
  • Mom

• Some folks want the position of being a U.S. senator to enjoy the benefits that come with it, like foreign travel on the taxpayer's dime - which Sen. Boozman's done 129 times.

  

  Conner Eldridge
  • Done
  • Travel

• The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Nature
  • Unique

• There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Character
  • Decision
  • Manly

• Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Me
  • Calling
  • Disrespectful

• O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So that astounded me because I thought you could only write about English matters.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mother

• Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Wise
  • Poverty
  • Sad