Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Do you ever miss yourself? The person you were before you had your first heartbreak or before you got betrayed by a person you trusted? I do.
I was mortified that she disappeared before me, sitting at her writing desk, surrounded by classical music. A cerut in hand and a glass of whisky within reach.
I need ammunition, not a ride.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired at the age of eighteen.
There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over. The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.
My uncle always said: There are two kinds of music: country and western.
Ultimately, it is the extra effort that separates the best from the second best. It requires ambition, determination, discipline and a willingness to sacrifice. If you add all this up, and even if you don’t win – how can you lose?
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
People ask if it is difficult to play while drunk. It’s not, as long as you make sure you are when you practice.
Bitter? No, it’s something we drink.
You must never let your worst enemy get into your head.
If you train hard, you not only become hard yourself, you also become hard to overcome.
Life is too short to wear boring clothes.
One of the worst things that can happen to a journalist is a belief in authority.
When I die, I want to go to sleep peacefully like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.
I was raised in a free and liberal home. I have never felt threatened by other cultures, other colors or other ways of thinking. In 30 years, there will be more and more colors in the minds of the people who walk around our streets. And we want to move around a lot more ourselves. It is also necessary that we open up if we are to remain strong at that time.
You have to go through hell to be successful. There’s a reason the devil wears Prada.
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
I am completely overwhelmed. It’s a good thing you don’t turn 100 every day. Even though I don’t have that much energy anymore, I still want to take a few more years.
Some people believe that football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with this attitude. I can guarantee that it is much more important than that.
Accepting your nose is the first step to self-love.
Isn’t it great to see so many men in bike shorts?
My old, wise father once said: Freedom of speech is a right to write and speak, not a duty! But of course: Freedom of speech is by its nature unlimited, and it applies to everyone, even the stupid and provocative.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.