Erich von Stroheim Quotes
For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.
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I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.
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I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
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It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
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I think one of the things if you look at minimalism or expressionism, there's various movements in modern composition that I think you can see really natural relations in pop music, so I mean I always look to that in pop music.
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Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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I know what it is to be out entertaining millions and yet wanting to be home because you miss your loved ones.
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All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.
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I have found I'm leaning toward more vibrant colors because I'm so happy in them.
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You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.
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I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles.
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I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.
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It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.
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For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
