Friedrich St. Florian Quotes

I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.

Friedrich St. Florian

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BeginningI AmAmericaSomeoneDoing

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

Jo Brand

PeopleWorldRestBackGoTwo

I'm a total junk food-er.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

JunkTotal

I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.

Jenny Lewis

WalkNervousAlwaysAnythingPretty

Women have it better in tennis than any other sport, but you shouldn't push them to play more than they're capable of playing.

John McEnroe

WomenBetterPushYouPlayTennis

There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one.

Robert Lepage

PeopleBetterOthersSome People

My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.

Anand Mahindra

FatherAgeScienceSchoolEndPlant

I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that.

Stacy Schiff

LoveFalling In LoveRelationships

If there is no blood on the line, it is not rugby league.

Russell Crowe

BloodLineRugbyLeague

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

Mitch Hedberg

LiveSisterNeverSheHalfwayJust

When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.

Moby

SchoolPhilosophyBrightStudyArts

I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

Luis von Ahn

FeelingsTouchEngineerWeightThem

At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.

Joshua Waitzkin

LearningCharacterRelationshipBuild

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