Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
The main objective is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the great one’s thinking.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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I am a just man.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, "I'm the writer."
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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When I read a script, if I feel it's written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I shy away from it. Sometimes it's some guy coming out with his own hatred, and I don't need to be a part of it.
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We do know that once again innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.
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Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.
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The main objective is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the great one’s thinking.
