W. G. Sebald Quotes
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
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Truth never changes. Truth always sets people free.
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The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding
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Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
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Movies that are subtitled don't usually do as well in American theatres.
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I have six brothers, and in the past I've done quite a few girlie films, like 'Wild Child' and 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' - so when they've been to those, they've been incredibly embarrassed. They won't be embarrassed going to see 'Black Death' - I reckon they're going to love it.
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We all have appointments with the past.
