Norbert Elias Quotes
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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his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible.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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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 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 have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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I have to stand up for myself... I learned something that I could and should stand up for myself, and he learned something, which was she will stand up for herself.
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It is potentially a harmful message to very young kids.
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Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.
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Death is a problem of the living. Dead people have no problems.
