Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Wenn der Kunst kein Tempel mehr offen steht, dann flüchtet sie in die Werkstatt.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.
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We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.
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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
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I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.
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Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.
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My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.
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To die of yearning for something you will never experience.
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Wenn der Kunst kein Tempel mehr offen steht, dann flüchtet sie in die Werkstatt.
