Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker (Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker) Quotes

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

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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.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
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  • Character

• I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Always
  • Just
  • Agenda

• I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Right
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• The most precious things in speech are pauses.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Things
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  • Precious

• 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.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Evil
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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.

  

  Lana Del Rey
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• I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

  

  Warren Zevon
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• That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

  

  Warren Moon
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  • Team
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• When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Writing
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  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
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• I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

  

  Gary Ackerman
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• I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

  

  Fernando Flores
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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.

  

  Laura Dern
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  • You

• I don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

  

  Kate Brown
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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.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
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• Fingir é conhecer-se.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.

  

  Vernon Howard

• Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

  

  Demetri Martin

• Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Father
  • Pleasure
  • Duty

• When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • House
  • Parents
  • Dies

• It's interesting for me to do the commentary with the actors because, as a director, you're so in your own world that you see it from your perspective, your issues and what you were trying to do, and then it's really very fun to hear their perspective on how it was to do a particular scene or how they felt, and sometimes, I didn't even know that, at the time.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • World
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• The final sentence here is an expression of what became known as the Pragmatic maxim, first published in 'Illustrations of the Logic of Science' in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 12 (January 1878), p. 286

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Science
  • Popular
  • Logic

• Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

  

  Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
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