Johann Georg Hamann Quotes
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn't yet adequate to meet customer's needs, a proprietary solution is almost always the right solution - because it allows you to knit all the pieces together in an optimized way.
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I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.
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When I was an undergrad at Stanford, there was a girl named Jennie Kim who worked for the school newspaper. Sometimes people would come up to me and talk to me about articles she had written. 'That one on getting a Brazilian was hilarious', some guy said, high-fiving me.
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What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
