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 had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.
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Now it's a matter of getting everything together, and we'll do that. Whether it will take one week or 10 weeks, I don't know the answer. But I know the enthusiasm is there to do it, and our goal is to do it, and heart is in this.
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It's nice to know that people are paying attention to you on the other side of the ball, but it's also kind of sad because you feel like you're a man that's being hunted down by some vicious animal. I feel they're going to come after me and do whatever they can to shut down the run, and that makes a difference with me in going out and doing my job.
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Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.
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It's fun. When we win, we don't have to look at the standings. When we lose, we have to hope that someone else lost.
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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.
