Friedrich Schiller Quotes
In circumstances where the law of force prevails, where security depends on power alone, the weakest party is naturally the most busy to place itself in a posture of defense.
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Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.
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I'm a proud family man.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.
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I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.
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If you have a character stand up and put on her shoes and open the door, in order to do that, you're imagining her shoes and her clothes and her house and her door. The character becomes more real. But once you've done that, you can probably just get it all across with a couple of details.
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As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
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Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
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In circumstances where the law of force prevails, where security depends on power alone, the weakest party is naturally the most busy to place itself in a posture of defense.
