Karl Popper Quotes
The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
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I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
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I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.
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What you dislike in your superiors, avoid doing to your inferiors. What you dislike in your inferiors, avoid doing when working for your superiors. What you hate in those who are in front of you, do not do to those behind you.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.
