Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker (Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker) Quotes
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.
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I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.
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I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
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Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.
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I don't watch a lot of TV.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
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When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.
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Honour is the mysticism of legality.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character.
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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When in doubt, use brute force.
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When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
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The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
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The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
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The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.
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Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
