Karl Kraus Quotes
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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I am tone deaf.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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I know all the critics.
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There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.
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I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
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Of several luminous bodies of equal size and brilliancy and at an equal distance, that will look the largest which is surrounded by the darkest background.
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Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
