Leo Strauss Quotes
No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.Leo Strauss
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
R. Kelly -
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke -
'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
Hal Sparks -
There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
Earl Weaver -
I literally don't think about Oscar.
Octavia Spencer -
The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
Kat Graham -
If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
Ziyi Zhang -
The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
Orison Swett Marden -
A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
Sam Hunt -
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
Mako -
In nature there are few sharp lines.
A. R. Ammons -
I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
Vidal Sassoon -
I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
Otto Preminger -
I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
Parminder Nagra -
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
E. W. Howe
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It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
Patricia Richardson -
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?
Seth Godin -
I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, 'Man, I got abducted yesterday,' then I'll believe it.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner -
The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.
H. L. Mencken -
No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.
Leo Strauss