Eric Voegelin Quotes

Don't immanentize the eschaton!

Eric Voegelin

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• The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Business
  • Guy

• Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Real
  • Fun

• My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.

  

  Becky G
  • Heart
  • Kid
  • Keep

• For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Important
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  • Me

• Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Up
  • May
  • Mother

• There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Time
  • Family
  • Job

• Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn't matter what you know in your head and what you've been taught until you're there and doing it; it's a whole new ball game.

  

  Derek Magyar
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• I think there's something beautifully old fashioned about waiting all week then sitting down and watching something on television together. I'm generation box set, accustomed to binging on multiple episodes at a time, which is fun but quite a solitary pursuit because you do it alone.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Time
  • Together
  • Fun

• I've played for St. Etienne, and the fans told me I should never go to Lyon. So I didn't go.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

• Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

  

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Single

• The main thing is, I can't stay up late partying when I'm on tour. That's not good for my voice or my health in general.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Up
  • Good
  • Health

• I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart

• I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • Life
  • Health
  • Depression

• Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Hand

• I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.

  

  Brad Bird
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• We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

  

  Jeffrey Archer

• To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Broken

• I won't say no to projects I believe in if there's a good story there.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Good
  • Believe

• Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.

  

  Chloe Grace Moretz
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  • Sister
  • Tattoo

• When people say the U.N. is useless, I ask the question, which U.N. are we talking about? We have the U.N. that is a secretariat led by the secretary general, and we have a U.N. made up of member states who give us our mandate.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • People
  • Up
  • Question

• Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

  

  Mick Rock
  • Internet
  • Musician
  • Newspapers

• I'm sure, out of the context here of Stanley Levison's relationship with the Jewish liberal forces, that had made contributions. I remember one such contribution before they moved from Montgomery. An associate in the real estate business with Stanley had lost a son in the war, and she wanted to do something in memory of him. So, she made available certain monies to be used by the emerging leadership there in Montgomery. I'm sure other individuals did.

  

  Ella Baker
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• Don't immanentize the eschaton!

  

  Eric Voegelin