Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
Was die Menschen unter den andern Bildungen der Erde, das sind die Künstler unter den Menschen.
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The American dream is about freedom.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.
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Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.
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I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.
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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
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Was die Menschen unter den andern Bildungen der Erde, das sind die Künstler unter den Menschen.
