Eric Voegelin Quotes
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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.
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My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.
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For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.
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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.
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There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.
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Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.
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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.
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We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
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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.
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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.
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I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.
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Surfing is my great passion in Hawaii.
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We may with advantage at times forget what we know.
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The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these regions by their constant plundering of resources and by the illegal dumping of nuclear waste. The pirates really began in order to discourage these actions - initially. And then the business became lucrative.
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Find what makes you feel comfortable. The confidence you wear your clothes in is what's really going to shine.
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Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.
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I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.
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Don't immanentize the eschaton!
