Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quotes
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
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No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.
