Max Frisch Quotes
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Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
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It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
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That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
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It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.
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The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.
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The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.
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To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us
