Johann Georg Hamann Quotes
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
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I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
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I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks, and I would like to continue that streak.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
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Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is all very incidental when you examine the kind of person he may be. He may be a big bore, and then there is a person who hasn't done a thing in the world and he is a fascinating person.
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What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data.
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The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
