Erich von Stroheim Quotes
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.
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Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
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I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.
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Senator Clinton is very knowledgeable about national security and is probably going to be strong on defense. I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January '09, she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.
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Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.
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I love to visit the comic shops, and I don't want to call myself a 'foodie,' because that word is just stupid, but I love diner food, and I'm a hardcore fan of 'Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.'
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For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.
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If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves; it is impossible. If you can't love yourselves, you can't love anybody else. Therefore we must gather up our great power so that we know in what ways we are good, what special abilities we have, what wisdom, what kind of talent we have, and how big our love is. When we can recognize our virtues, we can learn how to love others.
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I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.
