Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.
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Being the first FDA-authorized direct-to-consumer genetic test out there is revolutionary.
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In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.
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Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down upon their fellow creatures with contempt, esteeming them as dogs or devils, and imagining themselves beings of superior dignity and importance, to whom all are indebted. This banishes the idea, and unqualifies the mind for the practice of common justice.
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Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
