Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: spanish
  • Birth: May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955

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I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren't coming because of a mixture of things: because I'm not ambitious, and because I'm older, and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had sort of made my peace with that.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Anna Julia Cooper

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If you could literally 'rid' yourself of your problems by voicing them, I'd be all for it. But since that isn't so, why not reserve the spoken word for functional interactions and witticisms, if not declarations of love?

Amity Gaige

LoveYourselfProblemsYouWhyYour

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

Stephanie Rice

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If who you were was entirely based upon the position you were in or the headlines you got in the newspaper, or you had essentially subcontracted out your self-worth to the judgments of others, then you're going to be like tumbleweed. You're going to be blown.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Robin Morgan

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I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.

Drake Bell

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My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

Christa McAuliffe

PeopleAlwaysBeenWorking-Class

Any team member, any community member wants and needs to know they count, that they're welcome, and that they're important.

Christina Tosi

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Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Clive Bell

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The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

William Greider

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I never asked my children to do something I didn't show them that I could also do.

Tina Knowles

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