Max Frisch Quotes
Basically America (the USA) is not a warmongering but simply a commercial society: war as the continuation of business by other means.
Max Frisch
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
Dan Pink
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
Damien Chazelle
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
Zeresenay Alemseged
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
Naomi Klein
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
Barry Sternlicht
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
Katha Pollitt
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
Olivia Wilde
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
Dan Brown
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
Harmon Killebrew
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For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
Edith Widder
