Leo Strauss Quotes
Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.
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I think Donald Trump is a racist.
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Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.
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Al-Qa'ida seeks to portray America as an enemy of the world's Muslims. But President Obama has made it clear that the United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
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Sports is a mass product, and it's a non-replicable product. You can't knock it off.
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Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.
