Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
Quotes to Explore
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
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I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
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This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
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When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda.
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All children are manipulators.
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I constantly look like a miserable bitch.
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Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin, Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.
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There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
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I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.
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I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.
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The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
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Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.
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. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
