Why be a man when you can be a success?
Quote by Bertolt Brecht
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Bertolt Brecht Quotes
- What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
- He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
- First the grub, then the morals.
- Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
- Why be a man when you can be a success
- For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
- War is like love; it always finds a way.
- Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
- Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
- Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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- As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
- Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
- Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.