Franz Werfel Quotes
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
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The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.
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You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.
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My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
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When you like something, you find time to do it.
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'We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes...' (pauses, and continues with a note of disgust in his voice) This is a lot of shit, you know that! You want one more? One more on the beef?
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Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.
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A novelty loses nothing by the fact that it is a novelty; it rather gains something, and particularly if it meets the national fancy for the terse, the vivid, and, above all, the bold and imaginative.
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People look at me as this very, I don't know, Confucius-like wise person - which I'm not. They don't see all the shit that I've been through.
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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action . . . they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control.
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I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
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If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.
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For many people, this would have been a great final. But one of us has to go out early and we'll be doing all we can to make sure it's them.
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Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick.
