Daniel Kehlmann Quotes
A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.
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I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.
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Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
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Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.
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The balanced relation is the purest representation of universality, of the harmony and unity which are inherent characteristics of the mind.
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I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
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A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.
