Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.
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Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
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I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
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The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.
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I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.
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Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.
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A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!
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It's funny because ever since 'American Idol,' people look at me without makeup and think I'm 15 years old - they think I'm really young and quiet and shy, and that I've never been in a relationship and have never been in love or anything.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Women's studies is institutionalized sexism.
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In all this I can see but the doom of slavery. The North do not want, nor will they want, to interfere with the institution. But they will refuse for all time to give it protection unless the South shall return soon to their allegiance.
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The President has apples on the table And barefoot servants round him, who adjust The curtains to a metaphysical 't'
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I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.
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I think humanity is not wise enough to know what genotype or somatype is going to be the most successful or the most fit - simply because we're not fully in control of our environment.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.
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The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
