Daniel Kehlmann Quotes
People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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WWE doesn't owe us anything.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
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In its Declaration of Independence on May 15, 1948, Israel stretched out its hand in peace to its Arab neighbors, calling for an end to war and bloodshed. In response, seven Arab states invaded Israel. The U.N. resolution that partitioned the country was thus violated and effectively annulled.
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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.
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Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
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I used to do tech support for MSN in Canada.
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When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.
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People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.
