Hannah Arendt Quotes
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
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Wendy warmed my heart, earned my trust, touched my soul, and then touched me in a lot of other places. And right after we'd slept together for the very first time she looked up at me with her chocolate-brown, trustworthy doe eyes and said, "I've got herpes. I thought you should know.
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She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.
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All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.
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Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
