Walther Rathenau Quotes
Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.
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Music is my release.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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I'm a very independent woman.
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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level.
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We seemed to see our flag unfurled,Our champion waiting in his placeFor the last battle of the world,The Armageddon of the race.
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J.J. Abrams wanted me to do a part in Lost and we probably had three meetings, and I finally turned it down, but it wasn't because I didn't like television or Lost, although I think I said to J.J., "I don't want to be in Hawaii and have an insurance person tell me I'm not allowed to go free dive and spear fishing." That would be the worst kind of torture in the world. But I don't hate television.
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Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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I had to sit in front of all these people, and act like I knew what I was doing. I faked my way through it pretty well.
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Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.
