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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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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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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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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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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
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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 think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
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I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
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Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized 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.
