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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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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Let me tell you one or two things about Islam.
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Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
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I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.
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One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.
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I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
