Walter Kasper Quotes
The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and 20th centuries, paved the way for two ideologies that dragged Europe and the world into an abyss and plunged it into a catastrophe.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.
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Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.
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Look, at the end of the day, we do what we do because it suits us. Don't you think it's kind-of cool to have a band that offends MTV, that puts out a video that real fans have to dig around for, or stay up late to see? The point is to be true to yourself otherwise you may as well give up.
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The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and 20th centuries, paved the way for two ideologies that dragged Europe and the world into an abyss and plunged it into a catastrophe.
