Friedrich Schiller Quotes
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
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Would I love to run around and check out if Jennifer Aniston was looking for a boyfriend? Yeah, it would be interesting for a minute. But would I trade in my life to get her and Angelina [Jolie]? No way. I've got something better. And I don't need the neuroses of two type-A personalities in my life. One is enough.
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When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
