Karl Kraus Quotes

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
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I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.
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The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.
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The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material to present each of his protagonists in a convincing, respectful, but unsparing way. Even more valuable, he has used the interactions and tensions between Paul Nitze and George Kennan to bring much of American 20th century foreign policy to life, with human richness ever present but with the big issues clear in all their complexity.
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.