Hans Jonas Quotes
That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.
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If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
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That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
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I love making music. I never stop. I want to keep it moving forward. I like to go into the studio and make hits. It makes me feel good.
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
