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Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Albert Schweitzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: theologian
Nationality: german
Birth: January 14, 1875 - September 4, 1965

Topics

Life Good Ethics Me You Bad

I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment. But I hated my job, I didn't admire the people I was working with, and I felt that I was becoming a smaller, less imaginative, less risk-taking, less likable version of myself.

Myself Job People Suits Year Living

I don't feel comfortable as an insider.

Feel Comfortable Insider

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

John Crowe Ransom

Destructive Impatient

I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.

Success Live Night Long Career Now

Green Arrow was a very complicated character to take on because he has archaic weaponry. Catwoman, I think is more of a simple archetype to grasp, so it will be about nuance. But I think you need three or four issues before you say, 'Ah ha! Now I really know how to write this character!' You're carrying them around with you.

Character Simple Green Think You

I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

Young Actress Wanted Very

If you want to make the best of yourself, you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.

Best Yourself Diet You Want Need

Professional wrestling was almost like a secret society when I started, like a Mafia, and it would destroy the Sheik to see how much that has changed.

Society Professional Wrestling Mafia

A part of me understands why a mother is equally proud of all her children, but that little boy inside me just wants my mom to say, out loud but even just to me, 'I'm a little bit prouder of you.'

Lukas Forchhammer

Mother Children Me Mom Proud You

Rise above principle and do what's right.

Rise Above Rise Right Above

Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.

Dorothy Allison

Story You Out Watch Put Liable

We want our children to grow up in a safe community.

Community Children Grow Want Grow Up

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