Georg Buchner Quotes
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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I can appreciate other writers' works.
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
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When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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That is a long word: forever!
