Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.
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I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.
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I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
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Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
