Hans Jonas Quotes
Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.
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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
