Curt Goetz Quotes
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.
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I kind of just lost track of laps. I couldn't hear a split. It was just so loud in here everyone was going nuts. I sort of felt like I was a little tired and I said, the people in front of me seem like they are falling off the lead pack a little bit. I should probably make a move. I hear ding, ding, ding, ding and I thought "oh crap! I've really got to go, I've got a lot left.
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
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It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
