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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States have no friends, they only have interests.
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The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
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It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.
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The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.
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Solutions must be based on compromises.
