Susanne Langer Quotes
As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.
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Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.
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Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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In the same manner as we are cautioned by religion to show our faith by our works we may very properly apply the principle to philosophy, and judge of it by its works; accounting that to be futile which is unproductive, and still more so, if instead of grapes and olives it yield but the thistle and thorns of dispute and contention.
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As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
