Erich Maria Remarque Quotes
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
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Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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People die because they find living too painful.
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.
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My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
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One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.
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My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.
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I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.
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Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
