Hannah Arendt Quotes
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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At the end of the day, I continue to think I can get better, and that's always my focus.
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The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.
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He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.
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Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
