Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.
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One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.
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If you have a bad experience on the air, you don't think you've done your job, or you have an embarrassing moment. I guarantee you'll work harder the next time not to let it happen again.
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I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.
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Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.
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Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
