Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.
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one of the appropriate moments to make this clear.
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Every one starts out being an atheist.
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Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do... is erase the ones you hate. - Hakuryuu
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What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!
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What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
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The real practice of love goes beyond satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Wallowing in pleasure can be just as limiting as wallowing in pain if you don't open your heart beyond the satisfaction of your personal emotional needs.
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As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.
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Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
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The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
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Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.
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The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good when people stand in fear, Worst, when people are contemptuous. Fail to honor people, and they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who speaks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
