Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.
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The world is in motion, as it seems.
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I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.
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My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
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I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
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Everyone gets a raise when they do well. No one asked me what I got for my initial films. There was a time I got paid Rs. 6 lakh. I charge what producers are willing to pay me.
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Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!
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Despite the fact that meat is made from dead animals, it shouldn't smell that way. Try this test for meat freshness: close your eyes and see if you can tell the pork chops from a gym locker.
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I is here with the geezer who was the Secretary-General of the United Nations. His name be none other than my man, Boutros Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
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It is the American practice to present others as guilty wherever they are defeated. Is it not funny that those with 160,000 forces in Iraq accuse us of interference?'
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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.
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That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
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Above all else never let people know how physically unattractive they actually are. Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.
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But in my homeboys' high school, it's not like that. They don't have trips to go see this Broadway play, they don't read things we read. They didn't know when I was like: 'Yo, Shakespeare's dope.'
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Objections to religious mysticism lose their force if they can equally be turned against natural mysticism.
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My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.
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When I was a kid I used to drink from the tap all the time. I'd run back into the flat all hot and sweaty from playing and didn't even bother putting it in a glass, just turned the tap on and stuck my mouth underneath it. If my mom caught me doing it she used to scold me, but my dad just said that I had to be careful. 'What if a fish jumped out?' he used to say. 'You'd swallow it before you knew it was there.' Dad was always saying stuff like that and it wasn't until I was seventeen that I realised it was because he was stoned all the time.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
