Niklas Luhmann Quotes
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There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
Randa Haines
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
Jack O'Brien
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
Campbell Scott
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
Abigail Disney
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On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.
Rami Malek
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The greatest of vices according to Buddha is the lazy yielding to the impulses of temperament (pamada); the greatest virtue (appamada) is the opposite of this, the awakening from the sloth and lethargy of the senses, the constant exercise of the active will.
Irving Babbitt
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'I frankly doubt that.''Ah. That is your privilege. But doubt doesn’t alter fact, sir.'
C. J. Cherryh
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Dennis Martinez's perfect game at Dodger Stadium, July 28, 1991, based off of video on mlb.com
Vin Scully
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
Jack Vance
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The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.
Sam Keen
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Don’t say: 'They must have something in common, or they would not be called ‘games’' but look and see whether there is anything common to all. For if you look at them, you won’t see something that is common to all, but similarities, affinities, and a whole series of them at that. To repeat: don’t think, but look!
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
William Howard Taft
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I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!
Natalia Vodianova
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If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for 'deep truths' that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
Fernando Torres
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I would never really listen to my own music or whatever, but I write music so I can deal with things and I hope that some people can relate in that. Maybe help people, or just bring a smile to their face or make them feel cool or something.
Zachary Wayne Farro
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How can the mind participate in communication.
Niklas Luhmann
