Frederick the Great Quotes
A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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I've been standing with and united with the gay community. I know so many gay men and women that homophobia is such a baffling thing for me.
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I am one of the last photographers to convert to digital.
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I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.
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The actors feel that the music played before the curtain rises will put the audience in the wrong mood. The playwright suggests that the (purposefully lugubrious) music be played at twice-speed. This peps it up somewhat while retaining its essentially dark and gloomy character. The actors listen carefully, and are pleased.
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I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.
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A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order.
