Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
In misfortune we usually regain the peace that we were robbed of through fear of that very misfortune.
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I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Peace is important for Israel.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
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And now they are getting married, and I'm still single! What's wrong with me?
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If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
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In misfortune we usually regain the peace that we were robbed of through fear of that very misfortune.
