Walter Benjamin Quotes

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

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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Wouldn't it be something if Liberty's votes were enough to change which presidential candidate won Virginia and maybe even the presidency itself?

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

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At the age of 62, my father died of cancer - it was much too soon. My mother never remarried or got over it, never even thought of another man.

Monique Roffey

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I think Bollywood and cricket go hand in hand. Glamour attracts glamour. Cricket has become a very glamorous game now.

Mohammad Azharuddin

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I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars.

Chevy Chase

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While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.

Cory Booker

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I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.

Ari Graynor

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My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.

Ava DuVernay

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When I made the switch from strictly entertainment news to more of these natural world documentaries, it's really been all about wanting to make saving the world cool.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

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Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

Paula Abdul

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You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.

Paula Deen

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I don't mean to be so sensitive, but that's just who I am. And I'm not afraid to admit it.

Tiffany Haddish

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