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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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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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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Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.
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Women now make up approximately half of the workforce - very positive. Two-thirds of all families are either headed by a single-head of household or two working parents, and particularly in this economically challenging time, that second income is more important than ever. However, women are still only earning 75 percent of what men are earning.
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Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
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There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
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Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.
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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
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Don't immanentize the eschaton!
