Max Frisch Quotes
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.
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I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
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Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.
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From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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Take me or leave me, I'll never be perfect. Believe me I'm worth it
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I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.