Vicki Baum Quotes
Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.
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Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.
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Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
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The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
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Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.
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I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.
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It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.
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A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
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Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...
