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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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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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 was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.
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Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?
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The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.
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Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
