Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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• I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Long
  • Me
  • Voice

• I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Body
  • Greek
  • Cheese

• You look marvelous!

  

  Fernando Lamas
  • You
  • Look
  • Marvelous

• When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Work
  • Friends

• In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Power
  • Debt

• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Describe

• Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Desire
  • Movement
  • Western

• Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Name
  • Down
  • Cotton

• I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don't think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Movie
  • Enough
  • Now

• There's nothing you could say that would shock me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Nothing
  • Say

• We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Prayer

• A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Peace
  • Always
  • Difficult

• A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • History
  • Game
  • Team

• If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • America
  • Want
  • Attention

• I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.

  

  DeMar DeRozan
  • Space

• The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man.

  

  Cheryl Hayashi
  • Time
  • High

• I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened.

  

  Adrianne Palicki
  • Strong

• In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration. But, given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would take for just one of these protein molecules to appear by chance? Roughly 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years; and I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in a god.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Earth

• Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.

  

  Ray Comfort
  • Enough
  • Human
  • Cigarette

• You can't take back an act you were able to think.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt