Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.
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I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.
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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
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History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.
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Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?
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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
