Ernst Haas Quotes
I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I'm an emotional person.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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My wearing my hair in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of color that our hair is good enough.
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Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool of accessible ideas and individuals, the more opportunities there are for innovation.
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I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.
