I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while.


Dita Von Teese

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As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
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My dad's not a big talker.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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You cannot make horses 'safe.'
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
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I'm an affectionate person.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I don't think about the media.
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I love the sport and being competitive.
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I hate having my picture taken.
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Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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Never explain, never complain.
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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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Politics is not an exact science.
OTTO VON BISMARCK
Politics ruins the character.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or rig...
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of...
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and g...
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I always do something that I've never done before.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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KARL VON FRISCH
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just t...
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
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Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
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Dare to be wrong and to dream.
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Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at o...
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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
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Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the m...
ALEXA VON TOBEL
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
OTTO VON BISMARCK
Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means go...
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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
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I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do...
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At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!
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He who considers too much will perform little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
What shall he fear that does not fear death.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, jo...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
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War is the province of danger.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must be...
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa...
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten...
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
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To secure peace is to prepare for war.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be consid...
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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Freedom exists only with power.
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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
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Before you can do something you must first be something.
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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
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JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A useless life is an early death.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and tha...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken
LUDWIG VON MISES
The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you ha...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I hav...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
JOHANN VON GOETHE