Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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Fandom is amazing.
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The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.
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Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
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The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.
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For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.
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I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a whole world to talk about the world he lived in.
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When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.
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I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.
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I would have liked the old days.
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
