Hannah Arendt Quotes

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

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• Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Me
  • Cooking
  • Patience

• I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • She
  • Friend
  • Jazz

• Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Made
  • Tolerance
  • Liberal

• My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Children
  • Decision

• Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Spiritual

• I find that men are far more vain than women.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Men
  • Women
  • Find

• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Living

• Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Why
  • You
  • Interview

• When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Girl
  • Day
  • Dreams

• Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • America
  • Politics
  • Personal

• I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Me

• In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Work
  • Know
  • Training

• Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • Live
  • Experience

• I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kids
  • Addict
  • Alcoholic

• If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Want
  • Change
  • Doing

• I really enjoy being an actor!

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Enjoy
  • Actor
  • Being

• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• The key in shooting any good round is to give yourself some chances and, tomorrow, if my swinging is feeling any good, I'll have some chances. But, if it's not, then I'll have to give myself those 15- to 20-footers and hope I can make those.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Key
  • Chances
  • Shooting

• One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Depth
  • Timing
  • Bath

• The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Way
  • More

• This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Best
  • Prepare
  • Precept