Adelbert von Chamisso Quotes
In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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If you are elected to do a job, you are supposed to do it to the best of your ability.
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Boomf is all about communicating via marshmallows.
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In the spring of 1988, my wife, Joan Didion, and I were approached about writing a screenplay based on a book by Alanna Nash called 'Golden Girl,' a biography of the late network correspondent and anchorwoman Jessica Savitch.
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I do not like a quiche with wet, undercooked pastry underneath, and that is that.
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It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.
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In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
