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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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
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'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.
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On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
