Georg Brandes Quotes
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Quotes to Explore
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.
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You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.
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I’ll get a glimmer of an idea and the rest is just chipping away. It’s a long process, and most of my music undergoes many changes over the weeks or months that I’m writing. The songs change during touring, too, but the recording process always comes first.
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On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
