Oswald Spengler Quotes
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I'm not a control freak.
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The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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I don't read the critics.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.
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I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.
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But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.
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What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
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Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.
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Union can achieve everything when sustained by gallant hearts and correct principles, while anarchy and insubordination must fail in the achievement of every thing beneficial and glorious to mankind.
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I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.
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I grew up in Ireland, and there were so many things we believed in.
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I've often said the reader knows every bit as much about Thorne as I do. When I created him for 'Sleepyhead,' I was determined he should be a character who would develop, book by book, change and grow as we all do, and who - crucially - would be unpredictable.
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'Red Robin' was just another audition, like a lot of other auditions. I just lucked out, and I got it. It's a great group of people I get to work with. Roger Craig Smith and Will Friedle and a bunch of guys. It's fun!
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
