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Friedrich Ebert Quotes

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

Friedrich Ebert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: german
Birth: February 4, 1871 - February 8, 1925

Topics

Freedom Democracy Violence Matter

Everybody's a dreamer.

Dreams Dreamer Everybody

You know all those models who say, 'I was so tall and lanky and everyone picked on me at school' - I was not that girl. I hear that and I'm like, 'Oh, you poor thing!'

Girl School Me You Know Say

I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good.

Positive Good Optimism Reality You

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.

Eyes Light Walls Rock Become Bear

People warned us that if we went to them whenever they cried and refused to spank them, we would harm them irrevocably, but we decided there's simply no way to spoil a child. After all, they aren't apples.

Child People Way Apples Us Harm

In Bosnia, there are no 35mm cameras. There are no film labs.

Film Bosnia Labs Cameras

It's an institution that was born with my brother Chetan and me. I did it for him. I was becoming a big star in the late 1940s, and he needed a company to make films. So when he left Navketan, I brought in Goldie, and when Goldie left, I carried on alone. No book on Indian cinema is complete without mention of Navketan.

Alone Brother Me Book Cinema Born

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Christopher Lasch

Wisdom Community Progress Obstacle

Religion was my entire life. And then, when I came out, religion completely turned their back on me. And I've never really gotten over that.

Life Religion Me Back Never Over

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

Anthony Bourdain

Good Business Humility Restaurant

I see it in a lot of period pieces where everybody is standing and talking, in a stilted, archaic way, instead of being loose in the world. So, I try to do a little bit of research, just so that I can feel like I'm grounded, but then I try to bring as much of my human understanding that I can, under the filter of it being 1865.

Research World Understanding Talking

I like 'Confide' a lot. It was just like a great vibe for me. I was in the studio in Atlanta, and I recorded it and thought, 'This is definitely going on my album.'

Great Me Thought Atlanta Going Vibe

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