Hannah Arendt Quotes
Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.
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The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.
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I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively - from the global stage to within their own communities and families.
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All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.
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Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.
