Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
Umera Ahmad -
Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
Dalton Trumbo -
The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
Barbara Demick -
The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
Aaron Swartz -
I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
Lamar Alexander -
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
E. L. Doctorow
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
Rafael Palmeiro -
I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
Flula Borg -
Drama starts where logic ends.
Ram Charan -
I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
Rachel Dratch -
The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
Barry Jenkins -
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
Natalia Kills
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Samuel Butler -
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins -
My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
Malcolm McDowell -
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
Kate Christensen -
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
Barbara Kruger
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I'm a movie nerd, and when I'm really looking forward to something coming out, the less I know, the better.
Elden Henson -
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
Rahm Emanuel -
By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.
Preston Sturges -
In my mind, a bubble or over-hyped cycle is driven by something good happening, which is used as a baseline for the next good thing.
Sunil Nagaraj -
If Facebook owns social, if LinkedIn owns business, who owns your health?
Kevin Plank -
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
Friedrich Durrenmatt