Walter Benjamin Quotes
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The Prophet Muhammad himself sought to erase any distinctions between the message he taught and that taught by Jesus, who he called God's 'spirit and word.'
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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Good sports facilities are a blessing.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.
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I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
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The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.
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All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
