Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.
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Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
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I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.
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As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.
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If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
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Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?
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Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
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Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
