Original Sin quotes

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
-- Alfred Rosenberg

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Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.
-- David Cronenberg

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Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.
-- David Milch

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There is no original sin. It's all been done before.
-- Louis Dudek

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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
-- Willard Van Orman Quine

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I notice that so many of my peers, aging ingénues, rock stars, are moving along in life into their wrinkles with an adoring audience that's aging as well, and the plain truth is that I wasn't condemned by that because I've never had to be somebody to do something. I don't have a five year-plan. I just hope the phone will ring and it will bring an opportunity to dominate my life.
Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.
What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.
Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.
In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.
He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I really, really need one" and "I'll unleash romantic surprises every week, such as: an impromptu picnic, roses, or a trip to Parisâ€”but not actually any of those things because now they're not surprises.
I’m happy when what I’m doing is helping people and unhappy when what I’m doing isn’t helping people.
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue