Walter Kaufmann Quotes
Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and institutions - these are our customers. Too often we see bitcoin and blockchain technologies as solutions in search of a problem. We don't just need these systems to be technically better than the alternatives - we need them to be more user-friendly.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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One of our rules for the show, I guess the filter we try to pass everything through, is it's a safe place for women to be. It's not a show for women, because we're basically 50/50 men/women in our audience, but it's a safe place where women win. Women never lose on our show. I think that's very important. It's very unusual.
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If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.
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My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.
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We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong.
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
