Walther Rathenau Quotes
We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
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I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.
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I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.
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The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
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I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
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Since becoming a journalist I had often heard the advice to 'believe nothing until it has been officially denied'.
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We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.
