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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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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Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
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I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.
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Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.
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My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.
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The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
