Georg Brandes Quotes
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
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I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.
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Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.
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Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.
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I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.
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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
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He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
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“When she was a young woman she valued intelligence over all other human attributes. Now that she was older she valued kindness.”
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
