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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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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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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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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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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I didn't particularly want to go to Westminster - not that there were many seats available or chances for women to get elected. In 1987, Labour sent down 50 MPs, and only one of them was a woman.
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Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.
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If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
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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.
