Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark.
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As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
