Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
All the gang of those who rule usHope our quarrels never stopHelping them to split and fool usSo they can remain on top.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
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I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.
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I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
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Performing live is not my favourite. I am more of a recording person; I prefer to be private. I didn't mind doing videos, even if they came very close with the camera. I can take that, but walking on stage in concert and singing live, that is a bit difficult.
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Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
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All the gang of those who rule usHope our quarrels never stopHelping them to split and fool usSo they can remain on top.
