Karl Kraus Quotes
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
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I didn't realize I was in an awkward phase when I was in an awkward phase. It was when I was between the ages of 9 and 11. I was homeschooled. Everything I wore was pink and sparkly. And I had an obsession with headbands. I felt like I rocked them, though!
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I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
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In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.
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So many people have told me that 'Wicked' is their first musical ever and that they're hooked for life. I'm like, 'Wow, you really got it right when you picked this show to be your first one.'
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
