Karl Kraus Quotes
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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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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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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I was about ten when I first got laughs playing Fagin in 'Oliver' at junior school in Offerton. It was the best feeling in the world, and I didn't want it to end.
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
