Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
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People always want to doubt you.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!
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In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.
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Words have power. The things that you say to yourself as a parent - the things that you say maybe even just one time to your children - they take it, and they take it into their real world and into their life and beyond.
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We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
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What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
