Eric Voegelin Quotes
The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.
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I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
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In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die.' He winks. 'But not without one hell of a fight.'
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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
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Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
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In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.
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I'm really interested in food now. I never used to be. I always used to just eat when I'm hungry, and now it's an experience.
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There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.
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When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.
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The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.
