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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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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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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James is an ass, and we won't be working with him again.
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These modern productions are all very well, But there's nothing to equal, from what I hear tell, That moment of mystery When I made history As Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell.
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Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
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Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
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Unless you can muse in a crowd all dayOn the absent face that fixed you;Unless you can love, as the angels may,With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,Through behoving and unbehoving;Unless you can die when the dream is past -Oh, never call it loving!
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Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do. (Australia, 2002).
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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.
