Alexander Nehamas Quotes
For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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I regret all of my books.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.
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It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
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We cannot afford to fight our neighbor, even if we disagree on many things.
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For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
