August Bebel Quotes
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With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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So when I'm working out I do things extreme.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.
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They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
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I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
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I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
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And so we have one of the great ironies of the early Christian tradition. The profoundly Jewish religion of Jesus and his followers became the viciously anti-Jewish religion of later times, leading to the horrific persecutions of the Middle Ages and the pogroms and attempted genocides that have plagued the world down to recent times.6 Anti-Semitism as it has come down to us today is the history of specifically Christian reactions to non-Christian Jews. It is one of the least savory inventions of the early church.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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If you look it up on the Internet, it is cancer.
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If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.
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Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.
