Hannah Arendt Quotes

Thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Chance

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Parents
  • Way
  • Interested

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Violence
  • See
  • Skin

• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
  • Done
  • Better

• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Often

• In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Faith
  • Opinion
  • Many

• Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Career
  • Strength
  • Everest

• I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Universe

• I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • World
  • Reading

• In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Culture
  • Kind
  • Now

• The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Short

• I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Old
  • Just
  • Detroit

• You ask a faith, - they are content with faith; You ask to have, - but they reply 'IT hath.' There is no end, there need be no path.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Faith
  • Path

• I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Taken

• Zuvörderst nämlich wird eine Regierung nicht Leute besolden, um Dem, was sie durch tausend von ihr angestellte Priester, oder Religionslehrer, von allen Kanzeln verkünden läßt, direkt, oder auch nur indirekt, zu widersprechen. … Daher der Grundsatz improbant secus docentes.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• I can't say enough about 'The First Time.' It was such an awesome experience. Jon Kasdan, the writer/director, was great. He's such a talented guy who's really, truly special.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Great
  • Experience

• I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.

  

  Francois Hollande

• Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Always
  • Decision
  • Looking

• I'm terrified of lasagna. I think it was to eat ME!

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Thinking
  • Terrified
  • Lasagna

• Thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Speaking
  • Urge