Hannah Arendt Quotes
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
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At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.
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It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
