Max Frisch Quotes
You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
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It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
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General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision.
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For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music.
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I'm not going to lie to you: I'd prefer not to go to the gym and not to run.
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I seem to be less depressed but also less hopeful now in my thirties. My widow's peak bothers me. I think a lot about the end of the human race. And so on.
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You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself
