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Walter Benjamin Quotes

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Walter Benjamin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Someone Lying Dresses Etiquette Like

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Work World Think Trying You Create

We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat.

Friends Now Three Run Class Two

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Music First Electronic Music Album

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

Idol Only John Lennon John Lennon

I've written a very long piece of music recently, the 'Veil of the Temple,' which lasts about seven hours. It's really a kind of vigil. It takes place during the night, waiting for the resurrection of Christ.

Music Waiting Night Long Place Kind

When I stopped playing, I gave up exercising and put on some weight.

Up Playing Weight Some Gave Put

My family always ate dinner at the table, and we would chat about our day while eating. My parents like to have a few glasses of wine and linger after the meal is over, peeling oranges for dessert while talking. It's lovely.

Family Day Parents Glasses Dinner

I want to know why people are getting laughs. Why this joke works and why that one didn't work. It all comes back to helping me be a better WWE Superstar. So I love it.

Work Love People Me Better Back

I'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpoints of life, which I think is one of the things that holds our marriage together. She came from Texas, and she has an optimistic view of life. I came from Detroit and have a very pessimistic view.

Life Love Friend Marriage Best Wife

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

Chuck Palahniuk

Relationship Moment Make It Happen

I hope more cities engage with immigrant entrepreneurs the way St. Louis has - it's a great model.

Hope Great Way Immigrant More Model

If you have a Falcon Heavy, and you have a Dragon, and you have a Bigelow module, then all of a sudden, life gets interesting.

Life Interesting You Dragon Heavy

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