Wolfgang Hildesheimer Quotes
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
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If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.
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The facts are on our side.
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The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.
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You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
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Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.
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I hate when people use this term, but Matt Weiner is a genius.
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By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.
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The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.
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A veces, de noche, enciendo una luz, para no ver.
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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
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Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.
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I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.
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I've always been the biggest bully to myself.
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I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.
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The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
