Karl Philipp Moritz Quotes
My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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There isn’t a tool built that can’t be used as a weapon.
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I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.
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The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego. (p. 58)
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Jungs! Opfert euch nicht! Der krieg ist doch scheiße, Hitler ist ein idiot! (message in a pro-allied propaganda broadcast) Translation: Boy! Do not sacrifice yourself! The war is but shit, Hitler is an idiot!
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I'm fortunate to have success, but it was a long and challenging road, so I try to make that not be the case for other women.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
