Johann Georg Hamann Quotes
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.Johann Georg Hamann
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
Patrick Kavanagh -
Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
Naomi Klein -
The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
Walter Cronkite -
I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
Natalie Dormer -
Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
Mako -
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
Dale T. Mortensen
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
Waylon Jennings -
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
Natalie Imbruglia -
Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
Randy Pausch -
At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
Sally Mann -
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
Francesca Annis
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The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Otto Schily -
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. Edwards Deming -
I've always loved film more than theater.
Laura Dern -
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Samuel Beckett -
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann -
I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
Damien Rice
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I don't want people buying my records for this summer's hit. I want people buying them because they're interested in what Ministry will have to say in the future.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs -
When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.
Jessie J -
While I'm working on something, every single part of me is in it. But then, once it's done, I leave that place behind. I usually don't like to revisit it. So it's almost like listening to a different person.
James Edward Olliges Jr. -
He's been so successful, arguably the best quarterback ever to play the game. If you were trying to follow his footsteps, it would be incredibly difficult. I'd go crazy if I woke up every day and tried to compare myself to Peyton Manning.
Andrew Luck -
Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.
Bill Gross -
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
Johann Georg Hamann