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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When I think about the person who's been most in my ear, it's Joe Dumars.
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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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This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.
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I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
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I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.
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You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
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To write is to read one's own self
