Walter Benjamin Quotes
The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called 'Once upon a time' in historicism's bordello.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.
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I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.
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If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
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Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
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For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.
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The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called 'Once upon a time' in historicism's bordello.
