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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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.
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Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.
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We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.
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If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.
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Der Umgang mit einem Egoisten ist darum so verderblich, weil die Notwehr uns allmählich zwingt, in seine Fehler zu verfallen.
