Jan Vogler Quotes
I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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In a sense, I revolutionized the operatic scene because I proved you can make a great international career without the Metropolitan. I'm the only singer who's done that, and I'm proud of that, so it's all worked out for the best.
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I can appreciate other writers' works.
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My style has a lot to do with where I've been brought up. I've lived half my life in Puerto Rico and the other half in Florida, so I listen to music in English as well as Spanish.
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I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.
