Conrad Veidt Quotes
So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
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The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all.
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Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.
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After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.
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I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.
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So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.
