Friedrich Bergius Quotes
As early as 1910, Ludwig Landsberg had suggested that I should examine the problem of splitting heavy oils and oil residues into benzines.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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I love Kelly Clarkson's message, and I've heard comparisons to P!nk.
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I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
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Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
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We wanted to show people what it was like in one of those neighbourhoods that they would never have access to, in bars that they would be too scared to go into, and a world that they would never get to see. All of that is something really unusual and rare and kind of fascinating. And the only way to do that and to make it really worthwhile was that it had to be authentic. We dedicated a lot of time and energy to making that right and real. So we found basically the worst locations that we could.
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Water has an endless horizon; there is no limitation when you look out into the water. There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself as far as it can possibly imagine. I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows of cornfields. There is something exhilarating about it.
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I don't analyze things like titles.
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As early as 1910, Ludwig Landsberg had suggested that I should examine the problem of splitting heavy oils and oil residues into benzines.
