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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp. -- Theodore Bikel
You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes. -- Wendi McLendon-Covey
At the age of eight, I auditioned for 'The Sound of Music' and made it through to the third round, where we all stood in a row like the Von Trapp family and had to sing. -- Michelle Dockery
I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character. -- Christopher Mintz-Plasse
In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language. -- Harry Markowitz
I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don't really exist in cinema now. The only person who's really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier. -- Alice Lowe
Von allen Abenteuern ist Selbstmord das literarischste, mehr noch als Mord. -- J. M. Coetzee
Each of us is shaped by the truth of our natures.Von to Silver -- Adrian Phoenix
Hear it when i get biz for K-Von, I'm pledgin, died, on 104 Northern Boulevard corona queens legend -- Kool G Rap
There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us. -- Eugene Wigner
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe -- Anthony Bourdain
Sonny Von Bulow, who said to her husband Claus on their honeymoon, Stop needling me. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein. -- Cassandra Clare
He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Right now Von Miller is the best pass rusher in the world. He looks exactly like Derrick Thomas did in his heyday. He can absolutely destroy a football game. -- Jon Gruden
Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity. -- Elizabeth Wein
I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and he's got a sharp tongue and I love that. He doesn't mind it back. -- John Hurt
Von Geburt an in den engen Grenzen einer abgeschlossenen Gemeinschaft aufgewachsen, fiel es ihnen schwer, die Regeln eines ausgedehnteren Umfelds zu verstehen und zu akzeptieren. Oftmals waren sie verunsichert und trauten ihrem eigenen Umfeld nicht. -- Haruki Murakami
I think when you get the opportunity to work with someone like Lars Von Trier... I mean, Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, just to work with those actors, you take that opportunity when you get it. -- Kiefer Sutherland
I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it! -- Rob Thomas
I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously influenced by noirish cinema whether that's Von Sternberg or Scorsese in the 70s or Lynch, etc. -- Anton Yelchin
I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos of what I would write, however, came from the films of Ousmane Sembene and from reading Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker. -- Kola Boof
Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. - Richard Von Krafft -- Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets. -- Albert J. Nock
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek. -- Herbert Simon
I would amputate my toes to work with Lars von Trier again. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier. -- Pierce Brosnan
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.' -- Ellie Kemper
I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt. -- Bayard Taylor
I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works. -- Lauren Bacall
Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The medicine we practice today, which is infinitely more sophisticated, is Rokitansky's medicine. -- Eric Kandel
Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long. -- Brendan I. Koerner
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. -- Freeman Dyson
If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek. -- Karl Rove
Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor. -- Paul Merton
My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition. -- Chesty Puller
I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film. -- Gabriel Mann
If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change. -- Shia LaBeouf
I can't speak American dog very well. There was a lot of improvisation with Uggie - like when I put the dog on the table or sometimes I follow him, sometimes he follows me. I had a lot of treats in my pocket. We worked with Omar Von Muller, the dog trainer. It was very easy because it was a big movie. -- Jean Dujardin
I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food. -- Erich von Stroheim
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- John Herschel
Konkurrenz ist eine Sublimierung von Krieg. -- J. M. Coetzee
Klar sieht, wer von ferne sieht, nebelhaft, wer Anteil nimmt. -- Lao Tzu
[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived. -- Charles Darwin
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek -- Herbert Simon
Mein gutes altes kroatisches Herz beschleunigte von Walzer zu Death Metal. -- Hallgrímur Helgason
Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben. -- Oscar Wilde
John von Neumann was the only student I was ever afraid of. -- George Polya
The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility. -- Ilana Mercer
Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe. -- Kahlil Gibran
But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno. -- Adolf Hitler
Who is Dr. A. von Holstein? And is he related, by chance, to a race of cows? -- Darynda Jones
Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever! -- Kirsten Dunst
If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. -- Friedrich Schiller
Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer. -- Peter Norvig
If you two had babies would they be like uber-von Strassenbergs? Would they be like eight feet tall? -- Gwenn Wright
I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay. -- John Hurt
Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is. -- William Poundstone
... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated. -- Israel Gelfand
I mean look at Antichrist. He's not making films to be liked by everyone, so why is this so surprising coming from Lars von Trier? -- Kirsten Dunst
Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und BÃ¶se. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.) -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe31. The best revenge is massive success. -- Frank Sinatra
He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple. -- Stanislaw Ulam
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.' -- Enrico Fermi
Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and then lead them to the true. -- Robert Barron
Misstraue jedem Politiker, jedem Regierungs- oder Staatschef, der seine Religion zum Instrument macht. Halte Abstand von solchen Politikern, die ihre auf das Jenseits orientierte Religion und ihre diesseitige Politik miteinander vermischen. -- Helmut Schmidt
Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that Hitler was deeply religious. -- Ian Kershaw
Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music. -- Ellie Kemper
Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does. -- Ilana Mercer
I think you either get along with Lars [von Trier] or you really don't and I really got along with him. I wasn't scared because I talked to Bryce Dallas Howard about Lars. -- Kirsten Dunst
Menschen konnten nichts anderes sein als Menschen. Sie zogen sich Roben an oder Handschellen und taten, was von ihnen erwartet wurde. In diesem Haus bestand ihre Aufgabe darin, den Phantomschmerz einer amputierten Weltordnung zu erzeugen. -- Juli Zeh
For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nur ein Idiot glaubt, aus eigenen Erfahrungen zu lernen. Ich ziehe es vor, aus den Erfahrungen anderer zu lernen, um von vorneherein eigene Fehler zu vermeiden. -- Otto von Bismarck
Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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