Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.

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• Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.

  

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• There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.

  

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• My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

  

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• When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

  

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• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

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• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
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  • Will

• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

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• I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

  

  Nancy Lublin
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• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
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• 'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Power
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• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Worry
  • Mistake

• I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Up
  • Job
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• What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Personality
  • Media
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• A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
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• Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Change

• When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Work
  • Great
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• Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Work
  • Done
  • You

• One of the benefits of having an audience is that it requires a regimen, a need to create on a regular basis. I don't believe in waiting for the muse to visit.

  

  Keri Smith
  • Believe
  • Waiting

• We undertook a huge internal transformation to sharpen our customer focus, step up innovation, improve productivity to ensure competitiveness, change our culture, and simplify our ways of working so that our size and scale became a competitive advantage rather than a bureaucratic hangover after years of diversification.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Focus

• I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Long
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• Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Bodies
  • Mathematician
  • Precision

• But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Doubt
  • Dangerous
  • Defiant