Hannah Arendt Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Accept loss forever.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.
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There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.
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Read things to not just know what's going on, but see it from different varying viewpoints.
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I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.
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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.
