Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quotes
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
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I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.
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I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.
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My dream role would be a role that is entertaining and 'massy,' and it should be able to make people laugh and cry and make the audience scared of me and then make them fall in love with me again.
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The future of our national pastime, the great national pastime, is clearly represented in these agreements.
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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
