Heinrich Mann Quotes
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
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When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
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When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.
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I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
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Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.
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A sincere acquiescence in the dispensations of Providence will check discompusure of mind beyond any thing. It will produce a calm in the midst of a storm.
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I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
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I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.
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I am a competitive figure skater. I've been doing that for the same amount of time I've been doing acting. Ever since I was two.
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My husband is actually biracial. He is Caucasian and African American. And my brother's fiance is Latina. So we have a colorful family.
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It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.
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One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.
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My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.
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I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.
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And my father, after all, was a nationalist.
