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 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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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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Book-learning scarcely tells me Of severe afflictions after death-bed; And such as have heard my bardic books They shall obtain the region of heaven, the best of all abodes.
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I'm not scared of dying And I, don't really care If it' s peace you find in dyingWell then, let the time be near.
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It is a complex subject: the Muslim Brotherhood comprises both a transnational network, with links in the UK, and national organisations in and outside the Islamic world. The movement is deliberately opaque, and habitually secretive.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.
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I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.
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Solutions must be based on compromises.
