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- People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm,…
- There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
- I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
- It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
- People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
- America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is…
- I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight…
- People will always make comparisons.
- People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
- People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
- The future belongs to crowds.
- Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
- Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a…
- How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people,…
- Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.
- People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought,…
- It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities…
- For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we…
- It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
- He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.…
- People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking…
- People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
- That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
- Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.
- Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — 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
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle