Egon Friedell Quotes
The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Ford Frick -
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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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!
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When did Jimmy Stewart not play Jimmy Stewart? When did John Wayne not play John Wayne? But that's what we like about them. When you talk about acting, you really have to respond to somebody's personality.
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Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.
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The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
