Ernst Hanfstaengl Quotes
Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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I would kill to be on 'Dexter,' and I would double kill to be on 'True Blood.' I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!
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I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.
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Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
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To act is to rest.
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Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92
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What sort of arrogance did she have, even to imagine reaching back into the past and making changes? Who am I, she thought, if I dare to answer prayers intended for the gods?
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'
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If I can do just one-tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, I can really make a difference in this world.
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The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.
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'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?
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Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.
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I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds!
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It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
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Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.
