Walter Ulbricht Quotes
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.
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The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
