Georg Simmel Quotes
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
Quotes to Explore
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
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I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
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Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.
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I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
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Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."
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I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.
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My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
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Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.
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To obtain a mental picture of the distance to the nearest star, compared to the nearest planet, you must imagine a world in which the closest object to you is only five feet away - and there is nothing else to see until you have travelled a thousand miles.
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For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
