Erich Kastner Quotes
Emil was already familiar with those people who always say, “Goodness, everything was better in the old days.” And he no longer listened when people told him that in the old days the air was cleaner or that cows had bigger heads. Because it usually wasn’t true. Those people simply wanted to be dissatisfied, because otherwise they would have to be satisfied.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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Now I'm going to show a side of me I haven't shown before. I'm going to be fierce.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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People want leaders. Not ideologues. Not people whose life experiences have been so narrow that they've been able to maintain the purity of their youthful ideals. Not people whose principal contact with political life comes in the form of speeches and sound bites rather than decisions and responsibilities.
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I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
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Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
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I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.
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We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
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Emil was already familiar with those people who always say, “Goodness, everything was better in the old days.” And he no longer listened when people told him that in the old days the air was cleaner or that cows had bigger heads. Because it usually wasn’t true. Those people simply wanted to be dissatisfied, because otherwise they would have to be satisfied.
