Walter Benjamin Quotes

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Walter Benjamin

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• I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Life
  • God
  • Family

• All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Life
  • Progress
  • Human

• When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Fight
  • Against

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Stock

• The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Politics
  • Foundation

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• Few things are as essential as education.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Education
  • Things
  • Few

• For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Power
  • Perfect

• One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Reading

• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Often

• There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Woman
  • Enough
  • Full

• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Public
  • Frustrated

• The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Best
  • Baseball
  • Homework

• My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Look
  • Modern
  • Type

• If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Pure
  • Syrup
  • Maple

• Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

  

  Ferdinand Foch

• I'm a huge fan of Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' movies - I went to all three of them on the day they opened and have seen all of them several times since.

  

  John Lanchester

• CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • TV
  • CBS
  • Guest Stars

• I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to see me in a theater and they want to have their picture taken with me, it's not the end of the world. It's one of those things, where I'm not the only comic who does it. A lot of comics do it. If I'm doing a 4,000-seat venue, it might be a little bit of a different task, but it's all good.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Mean

• The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.

  

  Will Self
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Process