Erich Maria Remarque Quotes
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
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We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
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I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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I was always amazed when people were kind to us.
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Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.
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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
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I'm not a politician.
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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.
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I started to work on a feature-length script about pirates in Somalia, but I knew that there was something I was missing, which was that I didn't know what day-to-day life looked like and felt like in East Africa. So I decided I had to go.
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I had managers approaching me in high school asking me if I wanted to act professionally, but to me, having to miss school to do that meant missing time with my friends, which was completely unacceptable.
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You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.
