I can’t say I’m thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn’t want to escape it. I have accepted it.
BERNHARD SCHLINKEver building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.
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Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.
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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
STEPHEN FRY -
The moment I used my adversity to my advantage, my career exploded.
EMINEM -
One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
JEFF BRIDGES -
Damn right I like the life I live, because I went from negative to positive.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEIN -
The fact of the matter is actions speak louder than words.
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I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing.
PHYLLIS DILLER -
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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I’ve watched films and even forgotten I’m in them.
BOB HOSKINS -
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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