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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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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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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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.
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You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.
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The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
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Every day alive in the 'Power' world is a beautiful day.
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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.
