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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What I don't like to see is a lot of chirping and guys just talking crap to each other. If you got something wrong with a guy, go see him.
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
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The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'
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When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better.’ I think that is a worthy credo.
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And my father, after all, was a nationalist.
