A Quote by Heinrich Böll

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

Heinrich Böll

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Heinrich Böll
German - Writer
December 21, 1917 - July 16, 1985

The artist must know how far to go too far.

Jean Cocteau

Too far often, Black people are reminded of how far we have come as opposed to how far we can go. In doing this, we sleep on racism.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock

What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

Diane Keaton

I always consult five to ten people who are hardcore fans, to see how far I can push a role. When they go, "Wait a second, you can't do that! That's a sin!," you go, "Okay, fine, we're not going to do that. We tried too far."

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

Mary Hart

asically, we got to know other and openly trade stories, and had some time to prep. As far as the 'going too far' thing, the great thing about film art is that you can go too far, and with multiple takes nobody has to see it.

Luke Kirby

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Jim Rohn

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Jean Cocteau

You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

T. S. Eliot

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

Indira Gandhi

If you go too far, it'll blow your mind. I mean it's strong out there. If you go out too far beyond the bounds of attention, there are things in the universe, in the universes of mind, in the inner worlds, it's best sometimes not to deal with unless you're very, very far along.

Frederick Lenz

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot

I was at a dinner party with a group of people, and we were talking about fake names. You know, how its difficult to come up with a really great fake name. Its a very specific type of gift. You don't want to go too far into the silly, and you don't want to go too far into the banal. I always thought one of the funniest names ever was Gern Blanston, which came from a Steve Martin routine on one of his early records.

Paul Rudd

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

Woodrow Wilson

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.

Woodrow Wilson

I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and I go and say lines and people spoil me rotten. And everyone has that kind of curiosity of how far can you go, how far can you take it. I think it's always good testing yourself.

Christian Bale

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