Hannah Arendt Quotes
The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.
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It's been amazing to play a character that's known by so many people, especially because everyone knows at least something about Peter Pan.
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Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.
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It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
