Karl Kraus Quotes

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Important
  • Family
  • Daughter

• I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Success
  • Face
  • Conventional

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Drama
  • Act
  • Queen

• My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Work
  • Power
  • Political

• I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

  

  Iman
  • Father
  • Science
  • Political

• Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Living

• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Job
  • Security
  • Honest

• The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Simple
  • Will

• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Live
  • Women
  • Reality

• The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Alone
  • Teaches

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Great
  • Hands

• The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Math

• To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Being

• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Action

• I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Bills

• When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Power
  • Government
  • Judge

• Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

  

  Brenda Blethyn

• The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

  

  Mary Shelley
  • Nature

• Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

  

  Karl Kraus
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