Otto von Bismarck Quotes
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.
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It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.
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Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.
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I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
