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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top."
"Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved."
"I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion."
"Etatism, as a theory, is the doctrine of the omnipotence of the State, and, as a policy, the attempt to regulate all mundane affairs by authoritative commandment and prohibition. The ideal society of etatism is a particular sort of socialistic community; it is usual in discussions involving this ideal society to speak of State Socialism, or, in some connexions, of Christian Socialism."
"To recapitulate: the exchange-ratio subsisting between commodities and money is everywhere the same. But men and their wants are not everywhere the same, and neither are commodities. Only if these distinctions are ignored is it possible to speak of local differences in the purchasing power of money or to say that living is dearer in one place than in another."
"For a truly religious man nothing is tragic."
"It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him."
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
"Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman."
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
"We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany."
"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."
"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true."
"I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me."
"The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless."
"There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything."
"I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty."
"It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor."
"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."
"Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match."
"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want."
"There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy."
"Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth; nevertheless the masses will be happier under socialism, because they will share their worries with all their fellow citizens, and there will not be wealthier classes to be envied by poorer ones. The starving and ragged workers of Soviet Russia, they tell us, are a thousand times more joyful than the workers of the West who live under conditions which are luxurious compared to Russian standards; equality in poverty is a more satisfactory state than well-being where there are people who can flaunt more luxuries than the average man."
"I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun."
"I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers."
"If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive."
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