Paul Ricoeur Quotes
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.
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My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'
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Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends.
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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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When I started on 'Big Bang,' I was the only girl; I felt like I had four brothers. Then Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik came on the show, and we got really close. Because of that, I'm not so quick to judge other women, and now I have all these amazing new girlfriends.
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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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I've done a lot of comedy recently, so I would really like to explore something else. I am hankering after a really meaty, dramatic role... like Natalie Portman's part in Black Swan.'
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As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the radical Islamist mullahs ruling Iran share many similarities, but honesty and negotiating in good faith are not among them.
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey
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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
