Immanuel Kant Quotes
The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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Pilates is great.
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
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I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.
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It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.
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You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won’t be far behind you.
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It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
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The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.
