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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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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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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But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.
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Writers are idiots with Underwoods.
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Dancing to a great song with great friends and lots of laughter makes me come alive.
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That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.
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It's awesome when people even notice that I'm an actor.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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I feel much safer knowing that's where my son is going.
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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
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With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.
