Johann Georg Hamann Quotes
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.
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There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.
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I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.
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What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects.
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Can't even see without my vintage Versace frames. I don't go nowhere without them on. I can't even live without them. Every time I throw them on, I see all the haters, and I see where the money at.
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Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
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I remember, as a kid, going into other people's houses. Everything was different. The smells in the kitchen were different; the clothing was different. That bothered me. There's something very mysterious about other families and the way they function.
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We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.
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Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
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Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
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Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.
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The second somebody dies somebody else is born People are celebrating while other people morn Home may be home to you but to me it's foreign Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns
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White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it.
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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
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Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
