Ernst Hanfstaengl Quotes
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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I've been very lucky.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
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We are here to make another world.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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To have survived in radio for 30 years is pretty remarkable. Even more remarkable is to have been able to do it in the same market I've lived in my whole life.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.
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Fear Allah, for He alone lives; all other things are liable to perish.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger causes - eclipses the far less romantic displays of moral and intellectual fortitude that also distinguish so many of them. In turning them all into heroes, we have lost a sense of the individuality they also fight to preserve.
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A 'Hitler myth' was cultivated which built on people's desire for strong leadership, and presented Hitler as an almost God-like figure. Hitler's image was laboured over in a manner not dissimilar to that of pop stars today. What he wore, what he said, what postures he adopted during speeches were all worked out carefully... Many people began to separate Hitler from the Nazi Party, enabling Hitler's popularity to remain high whilst the popularity of the Nazi Party fell.
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With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.
