Alexander Nehamas Quotes
So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what life has to offer … That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.

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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
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A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
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I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
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The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.
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Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me.
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I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
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I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.
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Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style.
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Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what life has to offer … That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.