Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Der Umgang mit einem Egoisten ist darum so verderblich, weil die Notwehr uns allmählich zwingt, in seine Fehler zu verfallen.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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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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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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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
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It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
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We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.
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...I’m sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true: many people die from cold related deaths every winter, and here are studies that say that climate change in certain areas of the world would help those individuals.
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Today is different, and tomorrow the same.It's hard to take the world the way that it came.Too many rapids keep us sweeping along.Too many captains keep on steering us wrong.It's hard to take the heat.It's hard to lay blame.To fight the fire, while we're feeding the flames. - Second Nature (1987)
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Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.
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Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.
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Der Umgang mit einem Egoisten ist darum so verderblich, weil die Notwehr uns allmählich zwingt, in seine Fehler zu verfallen.
