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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.
Salma Hayek
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul -
The Czech ease has become my saving grace for traveling! Plus,with its light weight and small size, I save thousands of dollars every year in airline fees.
Esperanza Spalding -
But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.
Matt Cameron Pearl Jam -
We're looking at our own sizes, we're looking at our friends' sizes.
Allen Iverson -
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
Friedrich Durrenmatt