Max Frisch Quotes
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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When we show you all these various pieces of content on the site, how frequently do you take the one that we present? And of the one you took, how frequently do you completely watch the whole series? And do you rate it, one to five stars? So if we presented it to you, and you watched it, and you rated it, that's a big win.
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There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.
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I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.
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What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.
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If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.
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It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.
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The bloke is a complete lunatic. When I met him (Keith) five or six years ago, he was driving round in this battered up old Ford Escort and there was one night we went out doing three-point turns in the snow, off our faces on E and mushrooms. I’m not saying this was acceptable behaviour in fact it was fucking stupid but it’ll give you an idea of where our heads were at at the time.
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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
