Max Weber Quotes
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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When my first album came out, it wasn't Bollywood. The love that I received from people was everything, and it still is everything for me.
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My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were no cell phones back then!
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Bob Harras' personal and creative integrity is respected and renowned throughout the comic book industry. As an editor, he provides invaluable insight into storytelling and character.
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I do hope that 'Interstellar' and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an interest in science - and a respect for the power of science in dealing with the problems that society has to deal with.
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I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
