Max Frisch Quotes
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
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Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.
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But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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I don't do social media.
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By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.
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I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.
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Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
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Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.
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It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'
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Ev'en Thou my breast with such blest rage inspire,As mov'd the tuneful strings of Davids Lyre
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With impassive gaze, Michael, prince of warriors, measured the extent of the disaster, and his keen intelligence penetrated its causes. The armies of the living God had taken the offensive, but by one of those fatalities in war which disconcert the plans of the greatest captains, the enemy had also taken the offensive, and the effect was evident.
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That most risky and volatile of all things—a self-pitying majority.
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I am very clear with people that I am willing and able to make tough choices, and I will do that.
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I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.
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'Circuital' was just so much about us as a band. We captured every song live, including the main vocal. That is probably my favorite My Morning Jacket record because it's really the essence of us being us. The solo record is just a completely different essence of just me trying to figure out stuff.
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These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
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People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
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The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and thermonuclear weapons.
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I don't just write a script, and then someone takes it away and builds a game. I am continually getting input in order to create a big suspension field to hold the gameplay together so that the gamers aren't doing arbitrary tasks, so that they are doing things that seem meaningful.
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To write is to read one's own self
