Leo Strauss Quotes
We cannot exert our understanding without from time to time understanding something of importance; and this act of understanding may be accompanied by the awareness of our understanding, by the understanding of understanding, by noesis noesos, and this is so high, so pure, so noble an experience that Aristotle could ascribe it to his God.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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It's a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
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Once I get completely right mechanically and with command, maybe I only use two or three pitches to get through seven innings.
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.
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We cannot exert our understanding without from time to time understanding something of importance; and this act of understanding may be accompanied by the awareness of our understanding, by the understanding of understanding, by noesis noesos, and this is so high, so pure, so noble an experience that Aristotle could ascribe it to his God.
