Johann Georg Hamann Quotes
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.
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My body is my greatest asset.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.
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I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
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As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'
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Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
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If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.
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A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.
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Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.
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I see less and less.. .I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up.. ..I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.
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The action comedy 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' raises one of the most overlooked and important cinematic questions of our time: Can a movie maintain the dramatic integrity of a theme park ride?
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I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.
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Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
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An unemployed electrician,whom I had been taunting with my reminder of how much richer I was, leaned forward and said:'What are your qualifications? I know exactly what your qualifications are.You bent over in the shower to pick up some soap at Eton and Harrow, like all the rest of them.
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Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
