Egon Friedell Quotes
The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
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To make a bank was a great plot of state;Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
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I know how to love thoseWho love me, how to hate.
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man,And broke the die, in molding Sheridan.
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I grew up in the Bronx.
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The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.
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In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.
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I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.
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The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
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It was my first day at work - and beginning my training on the job, I was given the job of writing cheques and entering their details. The branch was surrounded by hordes of people... soon, they had to close the gates to manage the crowds, and they started pushing in.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
