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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Jason Rezaian, held for 544 days in Iran, was not a spy but rather a 'Washington Post' journalist whose work aimed to increase cultural understanding between Iran and the world.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I did a school fashion show, and I got scouted there, but I wasn't very interested in modeling at that point.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.
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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.
