Franz Grillparzer Quotes
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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I am a Zionist.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.
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I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.
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I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory.
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While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
