Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?Soren Kierkegaard
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
Manoj Bhargava -
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
Jack Prelutsky -
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
Quentin Tarantino -
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke -
I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
Gabriel Luna -
When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
Ralph Steadman -
I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
Barry McGuigan -
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
Gary Larson -
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tzu -
I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
Malcolm Turnbull -
I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
Samantha Shannon -
We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.
J. D. Vance -
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
Edmund Hillary -
And like everybody else in the known universe, she didn’t always let herself in on the truth.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
Dan Hill -
We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
Nadia Comaneci -
Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
Soren Kierkegaard