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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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 went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
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The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.
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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.
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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
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Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''
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Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.
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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.
