Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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I still watch TGIF shows like 'Family Matters.'
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I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.
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You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.
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Billy coughed when the door was opened, and when he coughed he shit thin gruel. This was in accordance with the Third Law of Motion according to Sir Isaac Newton. This law tells us that for each reaction there is a reaction which is equal and opposite in direction. This can be useful in rocketry.
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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
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Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
