Georg Brandes Quotes
The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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I hate competition.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.
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I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools
