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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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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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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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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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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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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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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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.
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Some women facing 'honour' crimes require relocation far outside the reaches of their extended families and changes of identity to escape detection.
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I'm that sensitive, honest guy who likes people, wants to know why, and who puzzles everyone by continually putting himself in harm's way.
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Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.
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Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.
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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.
