Hannah Arendt Quotes
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.
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The Department of Energy is a critical component of our efforts to curtail climate change; that work will be less effective unless we collaboratively rebuild confidence in the agency and its programs.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
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When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.
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I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
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I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.
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Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
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Do now what you wish to have done when your moment comes to die.
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Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.
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For excellence, the presence of others is always required.