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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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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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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Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
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What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?
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I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.
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Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.
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You take my hand,I'll take your handTogether we may get awayThis much madness is too much sorrowIt's impossible to make it today.
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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.
