Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
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The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
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From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.
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But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.
