Adelbert von Chamisso Quotes
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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Ev was a careful man, a model of caution. He took pride in not committing to a view until all the facts were in. Which meant, of course, that he was never quite on board. Or in opposition.
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The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!
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Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.
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We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through taxes. Libraries actually exist, all over the country, so why is it such a reach to imagine and to someday build a public institution that has a digital aspect to it? Of course the problem is that libraries and other public services are being defunded and are under attack, so there's a bigger progressive struggle this plays into.
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I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.
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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
