Alfred Brendel Quotes
I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
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If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.
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I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
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I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
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Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.
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I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
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Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
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I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.
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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
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Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.
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When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
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I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.
