Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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America is a meritocracy.
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
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I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'
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Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.
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I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'
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We played the games that people playWe made our mistakes along the way.Somehow I know deep in my heartYou needed me.
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We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
