Johann Georg Hamann Quotes
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
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I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam.
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I love her because she has become something more to me. She become my life.
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Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.
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A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
