Elizabeth Grosz Quotes
For Spinoza, an ethics and a politics follow directly from and are immanent in metaphysics; the better one understands the universe in its complexity, in the connections that link each thing to every other, the more adequate is one’s ethical relation in and to it. An ethics does not spring directly from our understanding of the world. Rather, it comes from our affective bonds to and connections with other things in the world, relations that enable us to enhance or diminish forms of life.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.
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Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.
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Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.
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Don’t overestimate your familiarity with technologies you barely understand. It could be your undoing.
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I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.
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I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
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Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.
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I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.
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I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.
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Luck and being honest and sincere about work has worked for me and helped me reach where I am.
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When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.
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I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
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For Spinoza, an ethics and a politics follow directly from and are immanent in metaphysics; the better one understands the universe in its complexity, in the connections that link each thing to every other, the more adequate is one’s ethical relation in and to it. An ethics does not spring directly from our understanding of the world. Rather, it comes from our affective bonds to and connections with other things in the world, relations that enable us to enhance or diminish forms of life.
