Joschka Fischer Quotes
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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I buy way too many books.
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Everything counts! Everything you do helps or hurts, adds up or takes away.
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I tried to live my life really openly and transparently right from the get-go. I think that probably resonated with people.
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I'm beautiful, even if I don't necessarily believe it.
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I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
