Ernst Junger Quotes
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I started out doing musicals.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.'
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.
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Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.
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When you get older, your skin tone changes; your hair probably changes colour, whether you dye it or not, and you just can't wear the colours you used to like anymore.
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Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.
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My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.
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I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.
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I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
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All of man's artefacts, whether hardware or software, whether bulldozers or laws of chemistry, are alike linguistic in structure and intent. (p. 227)
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Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.
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One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
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Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.
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Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!
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Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!
