Frau Rat (Katharina Elisabeth Goethe) Quotes
wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.
