Ernst Junger Quotes
As long as we have a youth that stands for all that is strong and manly our future is assured.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.
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Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
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When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.
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It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.
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It's such an intense thing to make a film.
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As long as we have a youth that stands for all that is strong and manly our future is assured.
