Walter Riedel (Papa) Quotes
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
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Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.
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Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.
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It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.
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I know Eddie would want the show to go on.
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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
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Never trust a pretty little liars even though they might be right.
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I would like, in my life, to always be doing things I'm proud of. I know that probably won't happen all the time. But I'd prefer to be telling stories I can be proud of and understand why they're being told. I do watch a lot of films and TV, but sometimes I think: "Why the hell did you make that then?" I won't say what they are though.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.
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Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.
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It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.
