Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.
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My parents are big Shakespeare fans.
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Art is an investigation.
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African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.
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Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly: the chances are, it's holding you, too.
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World history is tragic.
