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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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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Having one foot in design and the other in sustainable and social projects, I hear this question quite often: 'Why does the world need another chair?' My answer is that the world needs another chair/bicycle/car or any new product for that matter, like the world needs another book.
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I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.
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When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.
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My 20s were all about feeling desperate. Desperate to find a new boyfriend. Desperate to get the perfect job. Desperate to get rid of this terrible relationship with this bad new boyfriend.
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Sprigs of plum by the corner of the wall Are blooming alone in the cold; If not for the subtle fragrance drifting over Who could tell this from snow on the boughs.
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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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Love is a peculiar thing.
