Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg) Quotes
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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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.
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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.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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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.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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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.
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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.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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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.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
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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.
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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.
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You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.
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For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
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I like to do stuff for my brothers and sisters to appreciate because they look up to me, and for other kids around the world who want to get into acting or who just want to have somebody to look up to.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
