Norbert Elias Quotes
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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Men are irrelevant.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.
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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
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One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded.
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For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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Death is a problem of the living. Dead people have no problems.
