Oskar Kokoschka Quotes
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
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I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.
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You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.
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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
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The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.
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Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.
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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.
