Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Quotes
Simple people brought their bodies and shared their scanty bread with the artists. Kirchner learned the course of life again in their houses.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
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I don't like being lied to.
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There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.
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If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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Simple people brought their bodies and shared their scanty bread with the artists. Kirchner learned the course of life again in their houses.
