Friedrich Schiller Quotes
Don't let your heart depend on thingsThat ornament life in a fleeting way!He who possesses, let him learn to lose,He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.
Quotes to Explore
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
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The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.
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In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
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Don't let your heart depend on thingsThat ornament life in a fleeting way!He who possesses, let him learn to lose,He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.
