Baldur von Schirach Quotes
Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.
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After we got our first family car with a tape deck, my dad acquired exactly three cassette tapes: A 'Best of ABBA,' 'Private Heaven' by Sheena Easton, and the soundtrack to 'Xanadu.' I also unironically love 'Xanadu.'
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It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.
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In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.
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Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.
