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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I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
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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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The answer runs counter to some important aspects of U.S. culture— we must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling. It has always bothered me how even ordinary conversations tend to be defined by what we tell rather than by what we ask.
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Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.
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Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.
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I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.
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How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
