"Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country."

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Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.35, BoD – Books on Demand

Karl Philipp Moritz

#Country Quotes #Men Quotes #Prussia Quotes

“The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to you. And that's the same whether you're on camera or whether you're on stage in a room full of people.”
“I live in New York and I'm in New York basically all the time. I spend a lot of my time in my restaurants, and I feel like that's why they're successful.”
“If we were a sex manual it'd be a best-seller.”
“All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?”

Source : Harry Mulisch (2003). “Siegfried”, Viking Press
“Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.”
“When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.”
“As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.”
“I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me.”

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