Max Weber Quotes
Luther understands monasticism as a product of an egoistic lovelessness that withdraws from one's duties in the world. By contrast, this-worldly work in a vocation appears to him to be a visible expression of brotherly love, a notion he anchors in a highly unrealistic manner indeed and in contrast-almost grotesquely-to the well-known passages of Adam Smith.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
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There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.
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Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.
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I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that, but I'm too single-minded. I can't stand to be interrupted, whether I'm writing a story or dressing a child.
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I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
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I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
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Luther understands monasticism as a product of an egoistic lovelessness that withdraws from one's duties in the world. By contrast, this-worldly work in a vocation appears to him to be a visible expression of brotherly love, a notion he anchors in a highly unrealistic manner indeed and in contrast-almost grotesquely-to the well-known passages of Adam Smith.
