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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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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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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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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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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There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I don't really care about awards.
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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.
