Elfriede Jelinek Quotes
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.
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We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
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So I'm thinking about ??, or !!, or //, or \\, or whatever. But I think I like ?? the best so far. Or the least worst.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
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Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.
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Seeing what kinds of songs work in other cities and other parts of the world was pretty eye-opening. I know it changed how I approached the second record big-time.
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Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.
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Obviously, nobody likes to read or hear about anyone having a bad experience in our hospitals.
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I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.
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That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I'm a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It's your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up.
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Der Sensible muß verbrennen, dieser zarte Nachtfalter.
