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- Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about…
- We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was…
- To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what…
- Grief isn't all tears.
- My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond…
- I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but…
- My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process…
- The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new.
- Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.
- My mother answers all my fan mail.
- All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
- I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the…
- Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
- First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
- I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as…
- I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.
- I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas -…
- I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the…
- I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the…
- It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the…
- Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi…
- My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with…
- People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of…
- Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau,…
- Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it.…
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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
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle