Emile Durkheim Quotes
It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!
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There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.
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It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
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It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.
