Karl Jaspers Quotes
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
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I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.
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I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start. I would argue that I am the best president I've ever been over the last year or two. My team is more effective than it's ever been.But what is also true is that number one, this is grueling.
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Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
