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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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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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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If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
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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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You are not what you seem.So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?
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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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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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Everyone wants to be happy - people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent, I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It's important to find this balance, and priorities change throughout life.
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If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.
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Human life is a comedy-one must play it seriously.
