Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Zwei sehr verschiedene Tugenden können einander lange und scharf befehden; der Augenblick bleibt nicht aus, in dem sie erkennen, daß sie Schwestern sind.
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.
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Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
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It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.
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My parents didn't have any money.
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There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.
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I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.
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I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.
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I've been up the coast of St-Barts, playing with spidermonkies, tripping on acid. Changed my whole perspective on shit.
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Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at 'capitalism' because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.
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When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.
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Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.
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I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
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Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.
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I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.
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Zwei sehr verschiedene Tugenden können einander lange und scharf befehden; der Augenblick bleibt nicht aus, in dem sie erkennen, daß sie Schwestern sind.
