Georg Buchner Quotes
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.
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Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
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In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.
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People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
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The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed.
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I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?
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There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.
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As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.
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Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Gotham when I'm on set because I don't really like to break character, since I sometimes get distracted. I may get distracted when I'm talking to people and having fun; then I have to check myself.
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Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
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The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.
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The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
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The wisest have the most authority.
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Scientists are typically good at making scientific progress, but not particularly good at articulating what the progress consists of.
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Love is a peculiar thing.
