Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
Orville Redenbacher
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People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
N. T. Wright
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When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I think I can change things for the better in this country. I'm doing it now as well, in many areas, mostly in education, higher education and technological entrepreneurship. But I think I could do a lot more from a presidential position.
Dan Shechtman
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Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
Ban Ki-moon
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If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
Jack Ma
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I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.
Gareth Gates
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If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.
Kat Graham
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Gaily bedight,A gallant knight,In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long,Singing a song,In search of Eldorado.
Edgar Allan Poe
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When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.
Camille Paglia
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Salutations
E. B. White
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Oh, I've got news for youBaby, that I've made plans for twoI guess I'm just a stubborn kind of fellowGot my mind made up to love you.
Marvin Gaye
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I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
Bill Gates
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There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
Anand Giridharadas
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It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.
Sarah Chalke
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Desperately struggling, kicking down other people. Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over. And even so, you aim for the horizon over the hills. That's why humans are so interesting.
Yana Toboso
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Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.
Erwin Blumenfeld
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you.
Dougray Scott
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
Friedrich Durrenmatt