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Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Theodor W. Adorno

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Human Imitation Human Being Being

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

Joan Sutherland

Queen Sing Dear Anybody

I have a love factor with the minorities.

John Catsimatidis

Love Minorities Factor

'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.

Comedy Dark Kind First Right Pretty

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

History Man People True Real Same

A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.

City Color Black New Native Typical

Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.

Good Value Me Face Bad Way

It sounds kind of cliche, and a lot of people say it about our music, but I think a good place to hear our music for the first time is on vacation, or somewhere warm, on the beach or something like that.

Good Music Time Beach Vacation Warm

What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.

Dog Fear Anxiety Person Skin Way

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Son Hero Enough Want Human Hard

The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

Me Tough You Play Way See

Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!

Michelle Pfeiffer

Change Control Think You Out Kids

The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.

Jason Calacanis

Money Internet Giving Want Out How

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