Hannah Arendt Quotes
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.
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Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.
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I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India.
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You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.
