Ulrich Beck Quotes
Environmental problems, unemployment - all these issues cannot be resolved alone. They require at least European, possibly even broader, solutions.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
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I don't want to be famous for being famous.
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I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.
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I would hope that, for me, regardless of what happens in my career in the future, I always want to maintain a level of humility. I think it's so important to not lose yourself and to just understand that you're a conduit.
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Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.
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Environmental problems, unemployment - all these issues cannot be resolved alone. They require at least European, possibly even broader, solutions.
