Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.
Quotes to Explore
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.
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UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
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Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.
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To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.
