Max Weber Quotes
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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I will run against anybody.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
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It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
