Eric Voegelin Quotes
The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.
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I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this 'Peter Pan' film was there was an open-call audition that I'd heard about, or read about, and I just thought, 'Oh, I'll go along for the fun.' Because I never dreamed in a million years I'd ever get it.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'
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When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'
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The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.
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Promoters do not have a divine right to stay in charge regardless of how badly they mismanage an enterprise, nor do they have the right to use the banking system to recapitalize their failed ventures.
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No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way.
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From my experience as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, if a congressperson is identified as a potential target by a foreign intelligence service, that individual is notified.
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There is a lot of growth taking place in capturing aspirational consumers and converting them to luxury as they evolve.
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Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directing. I prefer to have five minutes' work for the crew - and keep the three hours to myself for thought.
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When I broke into music journalism it wasn't easy but there was more of an established path. I wanted and was able to have a grown-up person's job with a real salary writing for a fairly sizable audience about stuff I cared about. When you're starting out, you try to get as much experience as you can so people will see your work, and maybe start giving you the assignments you want, and paying you (hopefully both). And if you're lucky you land someplace where you can stay for a while. But today that's a trickier trajectory to envision.
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Israel, the Israelis, and the rest of the world have been brainwashed. They don't think of pre-1948, they have no idea Palestinians were in Israel, who we were before '48. As if we were born in 1948 according to them. They have no notion that we had a country, houses, rebelled against the Ottomans and the British. They think history in that region started in that moment.
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The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.
