Walter Benjamin Quotes

Alle zweckmäßigen Lebenserscheinungen wie ihre Zweckmäßigkeit überhaupt sind letzten Endes zweckmäßig nicht für das Leben, sondern für den Ausdruck seines Wesens, für die Darstellung seiner Bedeutung.

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
  • Proud

• My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Film
  • More
  • Often

• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Forty
  • Sandwich
  • Ham

• In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Lost
  • Purpose
  • Practice

• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Same

• No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Spring
  • Flowers

• I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Employment

• I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • New
  • Involved

• My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Mom
  • Passionate
  • Taught

• Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Needs

• It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Care
  • Painting

• I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Team
  • Mean
  • Marvel

• I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Breakfast
  • Egg

• The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Taken
  • Personal
  • Trophy

• 'Entourage' is a great show, but it's fantasy. I spent my twenties in L.A. in this business, and my life didn't look anything like that. 'Big Bang' reflects a side of men that is rarely shown. We see their flaws - all of them.

  

  Johnny Galecki
  • Life
  • Great
  • Men

• Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Live
  • Love

• I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.

  

  James Franco
  • Mind

• Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

  

  Jenna Marbles
  • Life
  • Character
  • Nice

• Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

  

  P. W. Botha
  • Die
  • Prison
  • Dies

• Alle zweckmäßigen Lebenserscheinungen wie ihre Zweckmäßigkeit überhaupt sind letzten Endes zweckmäßig nicht für das Leben, sondern für den Ausdruck seines Wesens, für die Darstellung seiner Bedeutung.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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