Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, 'This is a wonderful speech,' said he; 'but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.'
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A novel is not a rant.
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What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers?
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The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.
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I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
