Ernst Junger Quotes
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.
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I'm a germ-phobe when I meet a lot of people or shake a lot of hands. I always have hand sanitizer and alcohol swabs so I can sort of go back and forth between the two.
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Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
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I don't watch much television.
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I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.
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It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
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It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
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Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.
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I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as 'kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in.' But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of 'low intensity conflict...' What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.
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One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was just big; he still is one of my idols now.
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
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I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.
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His death brings new experience to my life - that of a wound that will not heal.
