Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg) Quotes
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
Novalis
Quotes to Explore
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
Laura Bush
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
A. S. Byatt
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
Sally Kirkland
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
Vince McMahon
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
Ice T
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova
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I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
Paloma Faith
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
Patrick Lussier
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
Maggie Hassan
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Harold MacMillan
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I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
Kamala Harris
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I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.
Danica McKellar
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I don't wish my career on anyone.
John Entwistle
The Who
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.
Hannah Arendt
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Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property...worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your own inability to adjust to life.
Harvey Milk
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The climax of absurdity to which the art may be carried, when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher... His landscape, of which he was evidently fond, is pastoral; and such pastorality! the pastoral of the Opera house.
John Constable
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
Novalis
