Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
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If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
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I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
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I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
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Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.
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Sometimes a lack of perspective can bring its challenges relative to someone who has a little bit more.
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It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed
