Hannah Arendt Quotes
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
Quotes to Explore
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.
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The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
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To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.
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When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.
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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
