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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To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.
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The possession of great powers, no doubt, carries with it a contempt for mere external show.
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Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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About magazines school children sell, which his wife buys without even looking at what she's buying.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
