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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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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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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The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.
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The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.
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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
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A foreign company in a comparable industry should pay the same as a domestic company, even if their products aren't produced here. That can be achieved using measures in corporate tax law.
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If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
