Merab Mamardashvili Quotes

The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.

Merab Mamardashvili

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: September 15, 1930 - November 25, 1990

Topics

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The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.

Jerry Saltz

GoodPeopleRevolutionPresentBad

Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when.

John Carpenter

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The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

John Moody

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Founders have continually struggled with and adapted the 'big business' tools, rules, and processes taught in business schools when startups failed to execute 'the plan,' never admitting to the entrepreneurs that no startup executes to its business plan.

Steve Blank

BusinessToolsPlanRulesNeverBig

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

Tony Randall

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We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

Roberto Azevedo

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My friends call me an owl. Apparently, it's a combination of being wise and having big eyes.

Romy Madley Croft

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Sanctions are a bad idea.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

Lisa Kudrow

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I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.

David Walton

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In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.

Brian Austin Green

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Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.

Apollonius of Tyana

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