Walter Benjamin Quotes
Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.Walter Benjamin
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
Orson Welles -
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Carla Bley -
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
Eddie Izzard -
If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
Harland Williams -
I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
Flavor Flav
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
Zac Posen -
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
Maeve Binchy -
If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
Fran Drescher -
The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.
Tavi Gevinson -
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
E. W. Howe -
I don't calculate my net worth.
T. S. Kalyanaraman
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Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
Maajid Nawaz -
China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.
J. R. Smith -
But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
Abbey Lincoln -
'It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.''Ob...obseek...?''Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: ‘Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.’'
Tad Williams -
As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
Dorothy Day -
People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, 'Oh, she's as good as us.' Of course, that's a stupid statement. It's totally stereotypical to say, 'We have an advantage on this, and if anyone else can do it well, it's only because they're like us.' I think more men are starting to learn that this attitude is totally hollow and based in imagination. As more women are involved in music, this kind of thing gets said less and less.
Esperanza Spalding
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There is as much guidance in way that closes behind us as in way that opens up ahead of us. The opening may reveal our potentials while the closing may reveal our limits-two sides to the same coin, the coin called identity.
Parker Palmer -
A lot of the time I tend to overlook the music because I'm listening to how it's produced.
Adam Beyer -
There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.
Walter Benjamin