Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
Carl Bernstein -
My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
Rachel Sklar -
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
Umberto Eco -
I watch a lot of television. I always have.
Aaron Tveit -
Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
Baba Kalyani -
When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
Action Bronson
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
Hanna Rosin -
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge -
Belief is thought at rest.
Larry Harvey -
To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
Dan Pink -
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
Beck -
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
Maimonides
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
Jack Kemp -
I've never worried about how long the song is.
Adam Jones -
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
Frances McDormand -
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
Caleb Cushing -
It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.
Lena Headey
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Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
Claude M. Bristol -
It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.
J. D. Salinger -
In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.
Eric Maskin -
You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don't, I really don't. It's nuts, but it's true.
Brooke Smith -
Wie langeDauern die Werke? So langeAls bis sie fertig sind.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht