Albert Schweitzer Quotes
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
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You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.
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I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.
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I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
