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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The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.
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I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
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Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
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The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
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In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.
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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.
