Walter Benjamin Quotes
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
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Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
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I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.
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I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.
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Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.
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It's one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years. People out there who have been with their partners for 30 years or more - I salute you. But it's just as hard to admit something isn't working and then try to manage a civilised separation as best as you can.
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In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.
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Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
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You have got to be kidding. I have nothing left.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
