Max Frisch Quotes
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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I only made one film with a score, and I hate it. I hate the score of that film. It's not coming from me. I had nothing to do with it.
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People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.
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In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
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Those beliefs about the essential goodness or beauty of the world are fundamentally paper-thin bullshit. There's not an essential belief that isn't a contingent belief. It could all be destroyed in a second, at any second. And I have an issue with that.
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Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
