Gustav Heinemann Quotes

Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.

Gustav Heinemann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: July 23, 1899 - July 7, 1976

Topics

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John Peel made his reputation with his radio show and his record label, Dandelion, by championing the underdog.

Jimmy Page

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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

John Galsworthy

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Game has been good to me. I want to pay it forward. I want to leave it better than I found it. And injuries, I want to walk away. I don't want to limp away. Rest of my body goes to my kids.

Robert Mathis

GoodWalkMeGameRestForward

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

Anna Deavere Smith

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The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

John Ralston Saul

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Before Angelina Jolie became a humanitarian, she was best known for wearing a vial of blood around her neck and kissing her brother.

Stephen Rodrick

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I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.

Tom Stoppard

WayWantedSimplyTheaterFelt

Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including the one I ran as Governor of Mississippi - to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.

Ronnie Musgrove

FearConstitutionUnderstandEqual

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

Josephine Baker

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There were a lot of manufacturing jobs lost over a long period of time and particularly after - during the Great Recession. We've had some recovery in manufacturing employment as the economy's recovered.

Janet Yellen

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With a label, pressure is added. Being independent, you don't feel a lot of pressure.

Jorja Smith

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Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.

Christian Bale

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