Joschka Fischer Quotes
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
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I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.
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Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
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I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.
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Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
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I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
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Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
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Otherwise it was quiet-that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn.
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Politics does not bother corporate power. Whoever wins, they win. Both parties represent Wall Street over Main Street. Wall Street is embedded in the federal government.
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James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.
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Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that's something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because taboos are where our fears live, and taboos are the things that keep us tiny. Particularly for women.
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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
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Solutions must be based on compromises.
