Oswald Spengler Quotes
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
N. T. Wright -
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
Jackie Kennedy -
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
Vidal Sassoon -
I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
D. B. Weiss -
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
Fran Lebowitz -
When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
Fat Joe
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
Randy Wayne -
I only know what I read in the papers.
Pat Nixon -
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
Naveen Jain -
To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.
Oliver Sim The xx -
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Frances Wright
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
E. W. Howe -
The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
Lance Ito -
I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
Ian Anderson -
We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
Xavier Niel -
Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
Tayari Jones
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Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
Edward Young -
You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.
Christian Louboutin -
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
Barbara Jordan -
...entrepreneurship, resulting in large-scale job creation, was the only viable mechanism for eradicating poverty in societies.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 462
Oswald Spengler