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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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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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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Patience is also a form of action.
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You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
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I am partial to a cartwheel or two. It's the way to go; I'll be doing them in my 50s, hopefully.
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There's been this strange irony to my whole life. All my original bandmates have died, when I was the most wild and most reckless of us all. But I'm still here.
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I'm ambitious in a good way. I've never wanted to settle as long as I've thought there's more.
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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.
