Conrad Veidt Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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A goal without a plan is just a wish.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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I've had some pretty stimulating conversations about where we are politically as a result of this movie [Snowden], but then there are a lot of questions just about that sensationalism of it.
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My husband wanted me to be a typical socialite. We never agreed on anything, so finally we decided it wasn't going to work.
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I may get married later or may never get married. But I want babies, so I'll have to get married. I want fat, cute babies. Every girl has to think about it at some point. For me, marriage is about family, and that's why I find it necessary. Till then, it's normal to have a partner and do your own thing.
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What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.
