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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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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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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I was born free.
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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.
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The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.
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I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.
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The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.
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Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.
