Walter Kaufmann Quotes

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

Walter Kaufmann

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• I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.

  

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• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  

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• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

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• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

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• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

  

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• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

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• I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.

  

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• A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

  

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• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
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• From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.

  

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• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

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• I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • End
  • Dogs
  • Cats

• I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
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• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
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• Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

  

  Vincent Canby
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• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  

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• Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

  

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• There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
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• To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn't go away, and everywhere else in the world feels like it is in slow motion.

  

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• Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.

  

  Joe McNally
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• I've learned from experience not to be too glued to one menu or routine in particular because I never know where I'm going to be and what kind of cuisine it's going to be.

  

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• It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Life
  • World
  • Purpose