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 think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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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 care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America.
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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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I have a really good family. I'm lucky to have people who support me and love me in my life.
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To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.
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The faster people are recruited to clinical trials and other studies, the sooner we will get the evidence so patients can get the best possible treatment .
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The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think that this nation is being asked put this mass slaughter behind them.
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One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
