Hannah Arendt Quotes
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I'm actually a hippy in real life. I had three dreadlocks on the back of my head once. They were spawning.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all.
