Otto Frank Quotes
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.
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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Make mistakes faster.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
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It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.
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No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
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There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.
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When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.
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Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.
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Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.
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Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops?
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We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves.
