Hannah Arendt Quotes
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.
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Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
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The crowd's a really powerful force on the Internet, and people finally understand how to harness that.
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I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
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The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but because when the government acts on the basis of religion it discriminates against those who do not "believe" in the governmentally favored manner.
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The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender.
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I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along toward an end. At the same time, the best stories are character-driven.
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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
