Niklas Luhmann Quotes
No matter how abstractly formulated are a general theory of systems, a general theory of evolution and a general theory of communication, all three theoretical components are necessary for the specifically sociological theory of society. They are mutually interdependent.Niklas Luhmann
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
Valentino Rossi -
It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
K. D. Lang -
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln -
I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
Kate Grenville -
The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
Utada Hikaru -
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
Patricia Hill Collins
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
Pardis Sabeti -
People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
Lata Mangeshkar -
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
Oscar Peterson -
Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.
Jack Ma -
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Pat Robertson -
People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
Iman
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
Lance Loud -
We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
Ian Mckellen -
Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
Vijay Singh -
A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.
Connor Jessup -
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
Al Stewart
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
Amilcar Cabral -
I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
Kaley Cuoco -
I'm not nearly as big as I was, but I attribute that to eating healthy. I'm just not a skinny girl, and I just want to give more opportunities to people like me.
Kelly Price -
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
Oscar Wilde -
If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.
Edward Zwick -
No matter how abstractly formulated are a general theory of systems, a general theory of evolution and a general theory of communication, all three theoretical components are necessary for the specifically sociological theory of society. They are mutually interdependent.
Niklas Luhmann