Immanuel Kant Quotes
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
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You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't fit into.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
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Harry Potter is awesome.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions.
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Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
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The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.
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I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you'll reap in abundance.
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The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
