Rolf-Dieter Heuer Quotes
The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.
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When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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Every villain needs her story told.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.
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I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.
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God hears a mother's prayer.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money. It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.
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All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
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The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.
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The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.
