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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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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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 can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.
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What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.
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We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
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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.
