Hannah Arendt Quotes
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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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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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.
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I once asked Aragon, the historian, how history was written. He said, 'You have to invent it.' When I wish as now to tell of critical incidents, persons, and events that have influenced my life and work, the true answer is all of the incidents were critical, all of the people influenced me, everything that happened and that is still happening influences me.
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Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.
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The more variance I have in my days, the more exciting each thing is and the more I enjoy doing it.
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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
