Hannah Arendt Quotes
No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.Hannah Arendt
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
Patricia Heaton -
My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.
Irina Shayk -
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
Salvador Dali -
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Saint Augustine -
America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
Malcolm X -
Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
Valerie Bertinelli -
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
Rachel Cusk -
I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
Paige Turco -
I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
Samantha Bee -
I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
La Monte Young -
This family at Barbour, they've made me feel very welcome.
Sam Heughan
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
Larry Bird -
I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
Zendaya -
When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
Kangana Ranaut -
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
A. S. Byatt -
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
Sam Harris
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The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.
Loni Anderson -
Few buildings evoke the sinister horror of 1950s municipal architecture more strikingly than the flat roof pub. Thrown up in their thousands wherever the working class were being rehoused, it’s hard to imagine that the architects were not secret teetotallers looking to make the whole pub experience as grim as possible. How else do you explain the cheap portal frame construction, the equally cheap uninsulated concrete slabs, and the flat roof with just enough parapet to ensure that damaging puddles formed with the lightest drizzle.
Ben Aaronovitch -
Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
Edouard Manet -
When you're in a movie, they treat you like you're four years old and give you whatever you want. On some level it's really wonderful and gratifying, but on another level it's rather disturbing. I'm sure you've spoken to movie stars and wondered: How do these people survive without babysitters?
Eric Stoltz -
No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.
Hannah Arendt