Karl Albrecht Quotes
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
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I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
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It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.
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Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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Nothing would please me more than if they were released in the next few days, but I don't want to raise the hopes of people detained.
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Don't you ever, EVER talk that way about television.
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Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
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I have always believed that those that have been given a lot need to share in all areas of life.
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It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."
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Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.
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Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.
