Hannah Arendt Quotes
Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
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Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.
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I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
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The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. —NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
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A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics - it's the only way in which to make them important.
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Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?
