Ulrich Beck Quotes
The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
J. Reuben Clark
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
Laura Hillenbrand
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
Wayne Dyer
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
Natasha Richardson
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
J. C. Watts
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
Yoko Ono
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I'm an honest, open father.
T.I.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
S. J. Rozan
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
Zhang Yimou
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
Naomi Wolf
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
Walter Cronkite
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
Vanessa Mae
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
Sam Harris
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
Vanessa Williams
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
Imran Khan
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The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Oscar Wilde
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I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.
Emmitt Smith
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I cry a lot. I find great solace in it.
Kelsey Grammer
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You want to go to work with people you like and where everyone is having fun.
Megan Fox
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
Ulrich Beck