Georg Brandes Quotes

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

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• The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Life
  • Korea
  • North Korea

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Same

• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Woman
  • First
  • Own

• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Money
  • Government
  • More

• I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Movies

• I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • God
  • Forever
  • Bus

• I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • History
  • View

• Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Art
  • Theatre
  • First

• In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Best
  • Environment
  • Connection

• The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Good
  • Real
  • Bad

• The fans treated me royally.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Treated

• Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Like
  • Wise
  • Looked

• There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Up
  • You
  • Say

• True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Respect

• It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Why
  • Fear
  • Health

• Dressing is a way of life.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Life
  • Way
  • Dressing

• The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young.

  

  Lynne Reid Banks
  • Time
  • World
  • Remember

• We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • World
  • Jump

• You know, when your poisoning your body night after night after night, you end up chipping a couple years off your life. I've always wanted to be able to do this and now that I am, it's hard to complain.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • Up
  • Night

• I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

  

  Georg Brandes
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