Hans Jonas Quotes
Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I would like to direct.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I'm a composer, man.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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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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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I'd love to wear the big pant, like I see on the street, or the blouson, but I'd look ridiculous. I'm not that shape. You must respect yourself.
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At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
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The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.
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Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
