Hannah Arendt Quotes
Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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I was born free.
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I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.
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Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.
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We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.
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Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
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But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.
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Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.
