Hannah Arendt Quotes
Kant stated defensively that he had 'found it necessary to deny knowledge. . . to make room for faith,' but he had not made room for faith; he had made room for thought, and he had not 'denied knowledge' but separated knowledge from thinking.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Don't forget to eat a lot of greens and fish oil pills. Those are two of the best things to keep your skin glowing.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.
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I think being on 'Weeds,' in general, makes it hard to think of me as Nemo anymore.
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Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.
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When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.
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Painting is another form of thinking.
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Kant stated defensively that he had 'found it necessary to deny knowledge. . . to make room for faith,' but he had not made room for faith; he had made room for thought, and he had not 'denied knowledge' but separated knowledge from thinking.
