Only dissociated, actor-like people can convincingly perform the non-utilitarian passion that Harvard demands from people who are applying for utilitarian reasons.
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Only dissociated, actor-like people can convincingly perform the non-utilitarian passion that Harvard demands from people who are applying for utilitarian reasons.
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"But what's interesting is Harvard wants that, okay? So in your application, you have to say to Harvard, I have a passion. I will..."
"Because you're basically an actor. Because you're basically an actor. Harvard wants the best actors in the world. They want people to go for,..."
"...are all American vassal states. And so they're not capable of acting independently of American policy. There is the illusion that they are independent,..."
"...both time and space, meaning that you can actually spend centuries acting out the script because everyone knows his role anyway, okay? And it..."
"...mainstream idea. But in the most extreme version, redemption just means acting out God's plan to compel the return of the Messiah, okay? And..."
"...okay? The first person just appears before Achilles and does the acting. Second person is the one trying to explain the direction, okay? The..."
"...see the same thing, because it's the same force that we're acting on."
"...our memories are. Our memories are constantly images in motion, changing, acting, okay, imagining, okay? Keep on going."
"...could he achieve the fame of Achilles. Okay? So he was acting out the play. What's important is that he himself saw himself as..."
"...never punished, okay? Okay, which tells us that Job was probably acting on the orders of David. They ravaged the Ammonites and besieged the..."
"...like I will become your Messiah and he did that by acting it out but pretending that's in the great but pretending to be..."
"...break the role and say to people, listen, I was just acting. The entire play dies. Okay? The play dies. Why is this important?..."
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