Georg Simmel Quotes
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.
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We're not eliminated till we're eliminated. I just feel good about not being eliminated. We get to live another day.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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I was in a slightly befuddled state by this time and the potent combination of watery beer and whiskey was bringing on a severe attack of drawing, as always happens when I start seeing unusual faces through a haze of controlled drinking. My body becomes a protective casing and lets me observe through the two keyholes on the front of my head.
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From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.
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Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
