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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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
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One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.
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Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.
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With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.
