E. T. A. Hoffmann Quotes
Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.
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an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.
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Society determines how long and in what manner the individual organism shall live. This determination may be institutionally programmed in the operation of social controls, as in the institution of law. Society can maim and kill. Indeed, it is in its power over life and death that it manifests its ultimate control over the individual.
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By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West
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Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.
