Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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The media is controlled.
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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
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I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.
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'Villain' is such a harsh word.
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
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Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
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I plunged in, and set up a Twitter account. My first problem was that there were already two Margaret Atwoods on Twitter, one of them with my picture. This grew; I gave commands; then all other Margaret Atwoods stopped together. I like to think they were sent to a nunnery, but in any case they disappeared. The Twitterpolice had got them. I felt a bit guilty.
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His parents had abdicated responsibility to an illusion.
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The battle sunk towards the horizon. Presently it would be gone, leaving a sky unsullied by human affairs.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
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It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.
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Grub first, then ethics.
