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Franz Grillparzer Quotes

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

Franz Grillparzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: austrian
Birth: January 15, 1791 - January 21, 1872

Topics

Sky Support Trees Think Short Seem

I work from a subjective palette.

Melvin Van Peebles

Work Palette Subjective

Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.

Children People Believe Parent Want

I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.

Decision Risk More Double Complex

I'm not overly greedy.

Don't buy this 'believe in yourself' rubbish. Why do they keep telling youngsters that? There's no point believing in yourself if you don't know what you're doing. Once you've got a vision of what you want to do, by all means stick to that passionately and doggedly. Believe in your ideas. It's not quite the same thing.

Vision Believe In Yourself Yourself

Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.

Travis Bradberry

Leader Integrity Responsibility Catch

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

Judah Friedlander

Night Comedy Go Want Out Most

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

Music Meaning Play Mood Whatever

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

Deborah Norville

Job Parents Roots Fly Think Grow

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!

Team Dressed Old Years Out Up

Only al-Jazeera is allowed to report from Zimbabwe, but it is unwatchable. Their Zimbabwean reporter Supa Mandiwanzira was one of Zanu-PF's praise-singers at the reviled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.

Broadcasting Only Reporter Zimbabwe

It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.

Life Value Speak Face You Lesson

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