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.
Venus Williams
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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.
Quentin Crisp
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
Warren Farrell
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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.
Daley Thompson
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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.
Lance Burton
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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.
Samantha Barks
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
Nathalie Sarraute
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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.
Patrick Kane
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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.
Beck
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America is a meritocracy.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
Zooey Deschanel
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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.
Isaac Barrow
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If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
Ma Jian
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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.'
Gabriel Iglesias
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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.
Vincent Cassel
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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.'
Raekwon
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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
Ian Frazier
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
Kage Baker
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My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
Jerry Saltz
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If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.
Jimmy Iovine
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Memory politics are by definition political and shift accordingly. There was a time when both the South Korean left and North Korea were more interested in good relations with Japan than the right here was.
Brian Reynolds Myers
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost
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There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
Agathon
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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
Soren Kierkegaard