Hannah Arendt Quotes

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

Hannah Arendt

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• Loneliness
• Human Condition
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• If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.

  

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• When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

  

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• In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

  

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• Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.

  

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• I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

  

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• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

  

  Omar Khayyam
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• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
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• I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Boy
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• Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

  

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• I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.

  

  Natalia Tena
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• I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

  

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• I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
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• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
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• I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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• Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

  

  Haniel Long
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• When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

  

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• I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.

  

  Zach Anner
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• If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

  

  Nate Silver
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• I don't know what the heck he was thinking. He just decided to pass everybody in one corner, and he ended up taking everybody out,

  

  Helio Castroneves
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  • Pass

• He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

  

  Virginia Woolf
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• I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Solitude
  • Loneliness
  • Dignity

• I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

  

  Jonathan Frid
  • Company
  • Winter
  • Bartender

• Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Company
  • Loneliness
  • Human Condition