Karl Kraus Quotes
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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I want every Grammy.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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There is almost no limit to the possibilities of the imagination, but to get the full power of it, one must trust one's imagination. If you say to yourself constantly, as the mother says to the child, 'But this is only play; this is not real,' you never can make real the things you have created in thought.
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I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
