Karl Kraus Quotes
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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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.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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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?
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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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.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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The cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled apart. But each one retained in itself, as a memory and a longing, the single point of the whole; and each mirrored in itself aspects of all the others throughout all the cosmical space and time.
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It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.
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They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
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Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.
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God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
