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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Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.
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'Why do they do it?' whispered Horeb. 'Their eyes, you mean?' said Rek. 'Yes. How can a man put out his own eyes?' 'Damned if I know. They say it aids their visions.' 'Sounds about as sensible as cutting off your staff in order to aid your sex life.'
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When I go running, I see Mexicans working hard.
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.
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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.
