Carl Spitteler Quotes
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.
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I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.
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Growing up, as much as country was a big influence in my life, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin were such a close second. My first concert ever was the Rolling Stones in Denver. I snuck a camera backstage and filmed Mick Jagger during sound-check.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
