W. G. Sebald Quotes
This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all.
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I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
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This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.
