Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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I'm an artist at heart.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great to have a healthy mixture of the two. Film is so technical: there's something very particular about the relationship between you and the camera. It took a long time for me to get good on film.
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The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.
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The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
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Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
