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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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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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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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
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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 wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.
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Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
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The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
