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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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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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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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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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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I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.
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It is an honor and a privilege that I am to be the sponsor of the USS Michael Murphy.
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I know when to have fun, but when it comes to my music, I'm really serious about my career.
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As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.
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Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
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I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?
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I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
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To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine.
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You're always homesick. There's always something about home that's special. But I'm not a things person. I'm not attached to my things.
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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.
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The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
