Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

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• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Like

• I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Enough
  • Author
  • Role

• We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Self-Love

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Men
  • Pleasure
  • Details

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Said
  • Go

• Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Encouragement

• I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Government
  • Red
  • Cutting

• To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Up
  • World
  • Friends

• I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Reading
  • Philosophy
  • Cats

• My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Life
  • Great
  • Heart

• Standing around the grill is fine, but I like to have my friends come in and out of the house. Movement makes the party more exciting.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Friends
  • House
  • Party

• This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt
  • World