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.

  

  Laura Miller
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  • City
  • Fighting

• 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.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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  • Live
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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.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
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  • World
  • Book

• Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.

  

  Iris Apfel
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  • Think
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• I miss Colombia. It's a great place.

  

  Camilo Villegas
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  • Place
  • Colombia

• 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.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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  • Respect

• The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

  

  Dalai Lama
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  • Problem
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• There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.

  

  Natalie Cole
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  • Singing
  • Voices

• I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

  

  Edie Falco
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  • Love
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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.

  

  Ed Harris
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  • Real
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Kaskade
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  • Best
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
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  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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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.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
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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.

  

  Rachel Caine
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  • King
  • Loved

• It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

  

  Dan Pallotta
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  • World
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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  • Father
  • Problem

• Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Light
  • Elite

• I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.

  

  Donatella Versace
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• In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

  

  Ben Marcus
  • Space

• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Career

• 'Big Sky Mountain' is the story of Hutch Carmody and Kendra Shepherd, lovers with a history, and a lot of hurt pride. The book is about finding their way back to each other, growing as people, and inventing a life they can share.

  

  Linda Lael Miller
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  • Life
  • Book

• Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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