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Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Theodor W. Adorno

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: german
Birth: September 11, 1903 - August 6, 1969

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People don't think the struggles gay people have are worth talking about because everyone's decided that we're all equals now. Those struggles are much more subtle now. But the weight of being different does carry on.

Andrew Haigh

People Being Different Think Talking

If we can get this economy moving and quit doing the things that prohibit growth, Alabama... can sustain that growth.

Jeff Sessions

Growth Moving Doing Quit Economy

I didn't think I would be an exceptional writer, and I thought I might be a useful publisher. I've never regretted it.

Sonny Mehta

Think Thought Never Useful Would

Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor.

Steve Scalise

Doctor Decisions Healthcare Anything

In terms of watching other directors, it's more like I go on set now, and I'm prepared, as an actor, and ready to give them everything, but at the same time, you observe how everybody else does it because there's always something to learn.

Shiri Appleby

Time Learn You Ready Go Actor

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

Shirley MacLaine

Diva Like Stuff Trips

I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.

Tracy Morgan

Family Day Wife Hair Clothes My Own

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.

Rory Bremner

Thinking Look Without Cook Himself

We have over 100,000 bridges in this country old enough to qualify for Medicare.

Mike Quigley

Bridges Enough Country Old Over

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling.

Michel Hazanavicius

Loved You Movies Silent Storytelling

When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it's like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.

Miriam Toews

Legend Person Human Over Eternity

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

Christopher Dawson

Faith Today Christian Tradition New