Johan Huizinga Quotes
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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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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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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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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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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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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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.
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And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
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The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
