Erich Maria Remarque Quotes
Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.
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It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.
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I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
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I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
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Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.
