Hannah Arendt Quotes
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Quotes to Explore
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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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.
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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?
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Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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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.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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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.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
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We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
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The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.
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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
