Caspar David Friedrich Quotes
If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
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Sam is a repetitive, comic process that merely marks time: he gets nowhere, but then he doesn’t want to get anywhere. Although there is no possibility of any real change in Sam, he never stops changing: Sam stays there inside Sam, getting less and less like the rest of mankind and more and more like Sam, Sam squared, Sam cubed, Sam to the nth.
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Knowledge about things beyond our immediate environment may be acquired through deduction, if the initial premises are believed to be correct.
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I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.
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And out of all the movies, I don't know what it is, I'll always sit down and watch our 'Footloose'. I cry, I get excited, I cheer, my heart pounds. I really enjoy it.
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I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
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If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
