Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

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• That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Service
  • Own
  • Which

• People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • God
  • Society
  • Marriage

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Band
  • Favorite
  • Jersey

• There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Energy
  • Grow
  • Chemistry

• There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Why
  • America
  • Relationship

• We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Like
  • Rich
  • Relationships

• I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Champ
  • Wallace

• I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Business
  • Think
  • Now

• Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Mom

• The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Mind
  • Political
  • Science

• You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.

  

  Carl Honore
  • May
  • Career
  • Best

• We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Like
  • Youth
  • Noise

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Life
  • Home
  • Texas

• 'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Question
  • Travel

• Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Party
  • Television
  • Golden Globe

• To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • God
  • Heart
  • True

• He's a four-pitch pitcher. He mixes it up well, and he kept us off-balance.

  

  Bob Melvin
  • Pitcher
  • Mixes
  • Off-balance

• If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.

  

  Ali Akbar Khan
  • God
  • May
  • True

• Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake