Friedrich Engels Quotes

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Friedrich Engels

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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Work
  • Love
  • Genius

• I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Love
  • Funny

• With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Laugh

• I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Kind
  • See

• My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Wisdom

• When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Reading
  • Afraid
  • Worried

• There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • You
  • Food
  • Need

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Crime
  • Bed

• I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Never
  • Camera

• Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Boxing

• Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Help
  • Reality

• My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Job

• I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

  

  Edmund White
  • Read
  • Americans
  • England

• The kindness that's been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it's really saved my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Future
  • Present

• The lieutenant took his time scanning their visa chips, letting them wait in the drizzle, occasionally making a comment with the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Time
  • Power
  • Small

• I love writing for the screen.

  

  Beth Henley
  • Writing

• If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film.

  

  Eva Green
  • Change
  • Film
  • Flattering

• The state is not abolished, it withers away.

  

  Friedrich Engels