Allan Bloom Quotes
Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does 'culture' become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.
Quotes to Explore
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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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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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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I was feeling it. I felt like that put us in a good position to win the game at that point.
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Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
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we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.
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I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.
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Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive.
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Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does 'culture' become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.
