Ernst Toller Quotes
As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I'm not super into sports.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
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I'm very passionate.
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You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.
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The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
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You are more than now;You are for always.I can see in youMy dreams come true.Don't you ever go away.You make me feel likeThere's nothing I can't do.And when I hold you,I only want to sayI love you.
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
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Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.
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How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.
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As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.
