Karl Kraus Quotes

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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In New Hampshire, we know that small businesses and entrepreneurs are the engines of economic growth in the 21st-century economy, and our state has long been defined by the entrepreneurial spirit of our people.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
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I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.
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Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
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Clearly understand that the only limitations you will ever have are the limitations you impose upon yourself. You truly do have infinite potential.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.