Ulrich Beck Quotes
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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When water power then steam power were harnessed to spin and weave cloth, a cottage craft turned into an industry overnight.
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The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
