Georg Simmel Quotes
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Women drive box office.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
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Live simply so that others may simply live.
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Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles
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When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.
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The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
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Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
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In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
