Bernhard Goetz Quotes
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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I am a 10th class pass in Hindi. From 7th grade to 12th grade, I was in Delhi; before that, I was abroad. I came in not knowing a word of Hindi in 7th grade and learned Hindi and passed the exam in 10th. I think I was north of 50 percent, so I feel very proud of that accomplishment.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
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Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.
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Now I'm going to show a side of me I haven't shown before. I'm going to be fierce.
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There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.
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I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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I think, honestly, my largest concern, there are a lot of unbalanced people out there, and all of a sudden, I'm the CIA poster girl, and our home in Washington, the front door was about 20 feet from the street. I went to the agency at a certain point and asked for security on a residence.
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I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.
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We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.
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Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.
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The whole trial seemed surreal.
