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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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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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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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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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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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
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The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
