Georg Simmel Quotes
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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Music has always been a huge part of my life and when I was a kid I was always throwing myself into whatever I could music-related - even if it was a little embarrassing!
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It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has become the preferred method of accomplishing that.
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The Statist has constructed a Rube Goldberg array of laws and policies that have institutionalized his objectives. His success breeds confidence in the limitlessness of his endeavors.
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
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The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
