Cornelia Funke Quotes

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

Cornelia Funke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: December 10, 1958

Topics

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There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

Joey Kramer

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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Ambrose Bierce

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I never start anything 'I want to be No. 1. I want to win Grand Slam.' For me, no. It's always step by step. The only thing I want to do, it's to push the limit.

Stan Wawrinka

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A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That's how an institution becomes one.

Shiv Nadar

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There are a lot of rules in cities that were designed to protect a particular incumbent, but not to move a city's constituents, a city's citizens, and the city itself, forward. And that's a problem.

Travis Kalanick

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I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.

Rita Ora

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I assumed 'Freak the Mighty' was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has.

Rodman Philbrick

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I actually have huge respect for Lorne Michaels. I think that guy is really something.

Michaela Watkins

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I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.

Jon Evans

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Lana Turner and Ava Gardner were my special friends at MGM.

Debbie Reynolds

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When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

David Walliams

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