Hans Magnus Enzensberger Quotes
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
Jack Lowden
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
Zendaya
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
Taron Egerton
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
Hansika Motwani
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
Katey Sagal
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
Carl Hagelin
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New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.
Zach Anner
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny
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There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
Barton Gellman
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
Sam Hunt
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You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
Carl Sagan
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
Manfred von Richthofen
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
Zoe Kazan
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There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
Dan Jenkins
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I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.
Chris Messina
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People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
Lois Lowry
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If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.
Carl Andre
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I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.
Amy Poehler
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
Ed Weeks
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
