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- We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and,…
- If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all…
- When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the…
- Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the…
- Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
- My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
- One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that…
- You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
- I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think…
- We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?
- We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
- As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third…
- My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied…
- The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
- If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide