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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A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever."
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I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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Environmental problems, unemployment - all these issues cannot be resolved alone. They require at least European, possibly even broader, solutions.
