Max Frisch Quotes
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I just want to do my job.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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I've been training quite hard.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
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I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.
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Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.
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I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.
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I'm so happy that James Baraz's AWAKENING JOY class is now available in book form. His class has been helpful to thousands of people. I plan to give it to all my clients who are struggling with creating a life of meaning and happiness. Joyfulness is our birthright. This book shows you how to reclaim it.
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You can put anything into words, except your own life.
