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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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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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 raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.
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Back in 2005, the Anthony Nolan Trust could have asked me just to speak out about the lack of ethnic minority donors on the bone marrow register, but that would have meant nothing if I wasn't prepared to join up myself.
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I liked the idea of being a writer more than I liked the idea of writing.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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'Muppets' is incredibly analog, 'Alice' is very digital.
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What Salman and Sajid Nadiadwala have done for me is priceless. I'll do any film for them without a single question.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
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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.
