Alexandre Kojeve Quotes
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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The show has become my therapy.
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I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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I know if it was the Time 99, I would've been off the list.
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Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit - it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.
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When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.
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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
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I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.
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I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in. For me, television is where it's at. You get to play a character for a long period of time, and you get to dig deep. It's a home to go to.
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I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.
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How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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Life would be very boring if friends always agreed.
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I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
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We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse.
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Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'
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Human life is a comedy-one must play it seriously.
