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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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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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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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
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I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
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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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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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Our nations are run by absolute worthless scum, our streets are taken over by sub-humans, the food we eat and the water we drink contains poison, our cultures are systematically replaced by "anti-culture", history is a big lie, et cetera et cetera. Of all the options I chose to start this blog, to spread dissent, to tell others - yes Burzum fans too - that there is an alternative to all of this.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
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I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.
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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.
