Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Die jetzigen Menschen sind zum tadeln geboren. Vom ganzen Achilles sehen sie nur die Ferse.
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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I certainly support civil unions.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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Sarah Corvus in 'Bionic Woman' was one of my favorite characters I've ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in 'Sexy Evil Genius.' I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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Sometimes you need other people to embody situations so that you can talk about things that for you are important. And I think that being able to hope for the future is what builds in us the strength to just get rid of things that, in the past, can hurt.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth. The conditions under which we exist today in the field of politics are indeed threatened by these devastating sand storms.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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Die jetzigen Menschen sind zum tadeln geboren. Vom ganzen Achilles sehen sie nur die Ferse.
