Karl Kraus Quotes
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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I voted for you during your last election.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Men don't hear women.
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Just to eat is a gift.
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The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
