Hannah Arendt Quotes
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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I really liked to perform. My mother always tells this story: I was five. They had a party, and they'd put me to bed. I heard everyone on the rooftop, and I went upstairs. No one paid any attention to me, so I took a hose and sprayed everyone. Very elegant, right? 'It's me! Look at me!' I loved the attention.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
