Paracelsus Quotes
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I'm just a worker.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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The big thing is that you know what you want.
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There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.
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And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
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I still just sort of live my life the way that I was before. I don't know when I will feel that it's different.
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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
