Hannah Arendt Quotes

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Hannah Arendt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: October 14, 1906 - December 4, 1975

Topics

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My favorite caricaturist is Al Hirschfeld. I'm always trying to give my caricatures that streamlined quality - and I often fall short.

Steve Breen

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Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

Sofia Coppola

ThinkYouGoNeverFinishThrough

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

Tom Stoppard

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You know, I had no trouble with the girls.

Rod Stewart

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I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

Rufus Wainwright

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There's a lot of insecure, sad people in any profession.

Martin Short

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Raw foodists are kind of paddling upstream against evolution. The only reason they can do it, and they don't all keel over, is that they are using blenders. They're very Cuisinart-dependent.

Michael Pollan

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For me, the Lord has opened the windows of heaven and showered blessings upon my family beyond my ability to express.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

FamilyMeBlessingsHeavenWindows

A less healthy America is not going to be as productive.

Joseph Stiglitz

AmericaHealthyGoingProductive

I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.

Douglas Coupland

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Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

Donald Judd

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My agent and manager would sternly tell me exactly the number of projects that we've turned down at this point. But, I think it's really important to do the right thing next.

David Slade

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