Walter Benjamin Quotes
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
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You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.
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There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.
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The big cheat meal will be a cookies and cream milkshake.
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There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.
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Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
