Hannah Arendt Quotes
In its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.
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Teaching university students affords me the opportunity to demonstrate to young adults that they don't have to be perfect to make contributions to their country.
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I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.
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'Bush v. Gore' gave us a president who lost the popular vote, eventually appointed two more justices, and led us into a war of choice while failing to regulate a financial system dependent on toxic mortgage-backed derivatives.
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The portraits are VERY difficult to make. The use of a skeleton creates an interesting balance between life and death.
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In its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death.
