Georg Brandes Quotes
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.
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Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source of anger, curiously enough, was that - was the tension between MMI and OAAU, that the MMI, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, these were women and men who had left the Nation of Islam out of loyalty to Malcolm, but then Malcolm continued to evolve rapidly.
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Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
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But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
