Absolute Quotes
1809 quotes by 1307 authors
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I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out…
— Jennifer Egan
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So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not…
— Theodor Adorno
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Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
— Rene Descartes
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I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith…
— Marya Hornbacher
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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…
— Dee Hock
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I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
— Jon Krakauer
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I've had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something I've rushed. It's…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.
— Bill Keller
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I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.
— Jason Momoa
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Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows it. As you…
— Esther Hicks
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The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very…
— Lloyd Kaufman
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Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to…
— Mindy Kaling
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I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
— Baz Luhrmann
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It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute…
— Jonathan Hull
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When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I…
— Michelle Ryan
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It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.
— Kai Greene
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Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace.…
— John McCain
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Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our…
— William Wordsworth
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If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity,
— Masai Ujiri
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