Fritz Perls Quotes
A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
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Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. 'Yes,' they will say, 'wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold.' But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.
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Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.
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Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.
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In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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I didn't need tempting back to the theatre. It's always been something I'd wanted to do again and again and again, but with every job, you can only take what's in front of you or what's offered.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.
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High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.
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The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.
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A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".
