Friedrich St. Florian Quotes
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
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The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
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We are what we continually do.
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I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance.
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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
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I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.
