Etienne Schneider Quotes
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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How does one get bored of life?
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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I love owning my masters.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.
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My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.
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War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.
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A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted. You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.
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Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.
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My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'
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'I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong again.' p76
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It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that.
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Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.
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You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
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Work isn't really work for me.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.
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If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
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Fishermen own the fish they catch, but they do not own the ocean.
