Johann Georg Hamann Quotes
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
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We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
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...when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as 'a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows', he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.
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[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.
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And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.
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Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
