Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
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I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
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It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.
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If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
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We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
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I hope that youngsters and civil society organizations and every Indian will feel proud. It is a noble cause to work for the rights of children. It is a movement against child labour and everyone must join it.
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I met Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige in a party. I didn't speak too much with Patti, but she was lovely with me.
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I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!
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The guy I'd felt such an immediate and deep connection to I'd thought that just maybe there really were such things as soul mates, and had considered, at least for a few brief moments, that he might be mine.
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The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I got past there, I loved reading, and found it very easy. When you get used to the Bible, it becomes thrilling to read (like any great book - I just had exactly the same experience with the Odyssey).
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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
