Albert Schweitzer Quotes
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I've never been a partier.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
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I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.
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We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.
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I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.
