Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one’s self.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.
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It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
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I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
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He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
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All the benefit that a New Yorker gets out of Kansas is no more than what he might get out of Saskatchewan, the Argentine pampas, or Siberia. But New York to a Kansan is not only a place where he may get drunk, look at dirty shows and buy bogus antiques; it is also a place where he may enforce his dunghill ideas upon his betters.
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Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.
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The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.
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How fit is he to sway That can so well obey ('Horatian Ode,' 83-84),
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It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.
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The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.
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We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
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When I tell people that I am acting in Telugu, they ask me if I have to overact.
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Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one’s self.
