Ernst Thalmann Quotes
Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.
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In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.
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My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.
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I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me.
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There are still many challenges and questions that need to be addressed before optogenetics can be applied in humans for therapeutic uses.
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We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.
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There are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers.
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Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.
