Erich Auerbach Quotes
The way in which we view human life and society is the same whether we are concerned with things of the past or things of the present.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.
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I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.
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It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
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I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
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I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but a tiny fraction of the diversity that according to the theory actually lived in the past. There are well over a million species living today and . . it is possible to predict how many species ought to be in our fossil record. That number is at least 100 times the number we have found.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.
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The way in which we view human life and society is the same whether we are concerned with things of the past or things of the present.
