Erich Maria Remarque Quotes
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
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Being a young actor in the industry, I had a lot of people who strongly advised me to stay quiet. That was hard to live with. But I've never played a gay role before, and I didn't want to be limited by some strange perception.
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When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
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All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
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The things men did or felt they had to do.
