No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.


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WALTER ULBRICHT
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WALTER ULBRICHT
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the vict...
WALTER ULBRICHT
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for pe...
WALTER ULBRICHT
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
WALTER ULBRICHT
It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
WALTER ULBRICHT
Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obs...
WALTER ULBRICHT
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
WALTER ULBRICHT
The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in ...
WALTER SMITH
There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
WALTER SMITH
From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football ...
WALTER SMITH
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
WALTER SMITH
I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attent...
WALTER SMITH
If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and mana...
WALTER SMITH
Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I...
WALTER SMITH
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
WALTER SMITH
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
WALTER SCOTT
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
WALTER SCOTT
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
WALTER SCOTT
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues he...
WALTER SCOTT
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
WALTER SCOTT
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
WALTER SCOTT
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
WALTER SCOTT
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
WALTER SCOTT
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
WALTER SCOTT
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTT
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTT
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTT
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
WALTER SCOTT
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some kno...
WALTER SCOTT
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTT
Look back, and smile on perils past.
WALTER SCOTT
When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.
WALTER SALLES
We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred...
WALTER SALLES
The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
WALTER SALLES
The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that ...
WALTER SALLES
The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for t...
WALTER SALLES
The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations be...
WALTER SALLES
That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you unde...
WALTER SALLES
So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.
WALTER SALLES
So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
WALTER SALLES