August Strindberg Quotes
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.August Strindberg
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
Adam Goldberg -
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov -
Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
Natalie Massenet -
I want to stop transforming and just start being.
Ursula Burns -
The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
Vanessa Paradis -
I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
R. J. Cutler
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
Vicki Lawrence -
The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
Gail O'Grady -
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
Wayne McGregor -
I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
Aasif Mandvi -
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
Daniel Barenboim
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
Warren Christopher -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
Fidel Castro -
I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
Paris Hilton -
I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
Aaron Sorkin
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The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
Edward Tufte -
We are not interested in excommunicating anyone. The game of sociology goes on in a spacious playground. We are just describing a little more closely those we would like to tempt to join our game.
Peter L. Berger -
Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity
Yatin Patel -
At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
Jacqueline Bisset -
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
William McDonough -
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
August Strindberg