Franz Grillparzer Quotes
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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Wonder Woman, she's amazing. I love everything that she represents and everything that she stands for. She's all about love and compassion and truth and justice and equality, and she's a whole lot of woman.
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I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.
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Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
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To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.
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Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
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True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.
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Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
