Walter Benjamin Quotes
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Allu Arjun is one of the most stylish actors. We should take care of our looks when acting with him because he wears the best of costumes, and if we don't take care, we would look like a housemaid beside him.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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On this subject any general rule is impossible ; love, like the chamelion, is coloured by the air in which it lives - and the finer the air the richer the colour. Some young ladies have a happy facility of falling in and out of love; their heart, like a raspberry tart, is covered with crosses.
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It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was.
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I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.
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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.
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Nobody likes being told who or what they are.
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.