Karl Philipp Moritz Quotes
I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
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I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
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There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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I think Australia is just a great place to bring up a family.
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I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.
