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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
"Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state."
"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"
"Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride."
"When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same."
"A confession has to be part of your new life."
"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession."
"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."
"Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody."
"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."
"When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future."
"The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem."
"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."
"The first requisite of civilization is that of justice."
"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."
"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."
"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."
"Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle."
"Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies."
"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."
"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."
"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."
"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach."
"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
"Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again."
"I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street."
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