Ernst Toller Quotes
I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
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My favorite actor is - I can't believe I'm saying this - is Meagan Good. I've met her in person.
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
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Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.
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Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.
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There is no Monday which will not give its place to Tuesday.
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Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.
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To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
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I'm prairie-dwelling, pro-union, pro-health care, and pro-education.
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The Internet is one of the most revolutionary technologies the world has ever known. It has given us an entire universe of information in our pockets.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.
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I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.
