Hanne Blank Quotes
Sometimes concern is the foot someone jams in the door so you can’t close it against condescension, presumption, invasiveness, and, at times, outright abuse.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.
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Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
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If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on.
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There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.
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To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of their greatest weapon. Even if they break our bodies and drain our blood, we are unvanquished. Our goal was never to live; our goal is to love. It is the goal of all truly noble men and women. Give all that can be given. Give even your life itself.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.
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I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.
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With a book he was regardless of time.
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Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?
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Put me on stage and I'm happy.
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There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
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My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.
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Sometimes concern is the foot someone jams in the door so you can’t close it against condescension, presumption, invasiveness, and, at times, outright abuse.
