Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I never really learned photography.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.
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We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.
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A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
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If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
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We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.
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The tours are campaigns.
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Traditional local advertising is not what retailers want. They want not just for you to see an ad - they want you to come into the store, to be a repeat customer and to spread the word.
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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Don't get married to the idea of something having to be one way.
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I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.
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As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die.
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They thought war was a game and every defeat only made them more eager to play.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
