Ferdinand Porsche Quotes
A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.
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In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
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I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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Nobody is faster than me.
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I love acting.
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Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.
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People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.
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About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.
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A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
