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.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • World
  • Friends
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

  

  Kanye West
  • Great
  • Art
  • Pain

• 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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
  • Me
  • Journalism

• I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Me
  • Saying
  • Newspapers

• My favorite actor is - I can't believe I'm saying this - is Meagan Good. I've met her in person.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Saying

• You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Distance

• 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.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Faith

• Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

  

  Irvine Welsh

• 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.

  

  Jay Parini
  • True
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Time
  • Strong

• It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Good

• As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.

  

  Ann Rinaldi
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• The use of crypto-currency as a surrogate for the ruble in trading in goods and services, in our opinion, has a risk of undermining the circulation of money.

  

  Elvira Nabiullina
  • Money
  • Opinion
  • Risk

• I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

  

  Christopher Atkins
  • Movie
  • Vampire

• On the advertising side, view count is not the most important thing. It's engagement.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Important
  • Engagement

• You know what I miss? I miss myself, that time to just do things for myself.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Time

• If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.

  

  Carl Hart
  • People
  • Work

• I've loved dinosaurs since I was teeny tiny.

  

  Ty Simpkins

• I didn't want my script to get too out of control like that. So I actually made it a point not to do stuff like that, to pretty - to keep it more sparse than it's been in the last few years, or the last decade.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Control

• It is rewarding beyond words to rescue a dog from the shelter and have that dog become part of your family.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Family
  • Words
  • Dog

• If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Words
  • Write
  • Actor

• I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Me
  • Working
  • Started

• 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.

  

  Ernst Toller
  • Words