Walter Benjamin Quotes
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel when I'm in Europe.
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I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.
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'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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I have known a lot of people to go down and out - they kill themselves with alcohol or downers. But I've never known anybody to go up and out.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
