Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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I have no political aspirations. That's it.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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The harsh reality is that we simply cannot tax our way out of our overspending and debt problem. We need a balanced approach that includes both a stronger economy to generate new tax revenues and bipartisan guardrails, which will help ensure that future presidents and congresses spend within our means.
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You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.
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Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
