Walter Benjamin Quotes

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Walter Benjamin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: July 15, 1892 - September 26, 1940

Topics

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I've never been a particular fan of any genre.

Jewel Staite

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There's a lot of judges on TV in America. Apart from Judge Judy, the vast majority of them are terrible.

Robert Rinder

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For me, 'The Ultimate Fighter' has been massive. I think it is a fantastic vehicle to find the new talent of tomorrow.

Michael Bisping

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I think I love fiction shows more than the reality shows. I have been offered many shows, but I don't think I am tailored for reality TV.

Sriti Jha

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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.

Little Richard

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Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.

Denholm Elliott

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I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.

Christian Scott

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Don't let anyone tell you not to do what you want to do.

Brad Goreski

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My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By the same token, the Chinese people, new to the republican politics, must be educated properly. The revolutionary government should be the people's tutor to impart advanced awareness and experience.

Sun Yat-sen

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