Karl Philipp Moritz Quotes
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
