Friedrich List Quotes
The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I was experimenting with ways of creating edible objects from digital content, and I was working to three criteria: 1. They had to be delicious. 2. They had to be personalized. 3. They had to fit through a letterbox or in a mailbox. After much experiments, Boomf! There it was: photo marshmallows.
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I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.
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Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.
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My colleague Rachel Yehuda studied rates of PTSD in adult New Yorkers who had been assaulted or rapes. Those whose mothers were Holocaust survivors with PTSD had a significantly higher rate of developing serious psychological problems after these traumatic experiences. The most reasonable explanation is that their upbringing had left them with a vulnerable physiology, making it difficult for them to regain their equilibrium after being violated. Yehuda found a similar vulnerability in the children of pregnant women who were in the World Trade Center that fatal day in 2001. Similarly, the reactions of children to painful events are largely determined by how calm or stressed their parents are.
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It's definitely fun when you're able to translate your practice into the game. It's fun, and you know that your hard work paid off.
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The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.
