Adolf Bastian Quotes
A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire! and no one lifts a hand.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
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We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.
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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
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When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our control that have the power to annihilate us, as a species, and it's all rather frightening.
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The reality is that each movie has got to be seen in its own light.
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Can man be free if woman be a slave?
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A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire! and no one lifts a hand.
