James Hillman Quotes
Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.
Quotes to Explore
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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Stop allowing yourself to focus on depressing life circumstances - including focusing on being depressed about your weight. All this negative focus will only lead you to feeling bummed and wanting to pig out. Instead, consciously focus on happy life circumstances you enjoy doing, and create more of them!
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.
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Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
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Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as the population rises to a projected nine billion by mid-century, and by the effects of climate change. An 'ecological shock' could irreversibly degrade our environment.
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There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
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Ernie Savage rose to fire on three enemy soldiers only a few feet away only to find that his rifle was empty. Savage says: “I didn’t know what to do, so I just said ‘Hi’ and smiled. All three looked at me in confusion, but by then I had slipped in a fresh magazine and sprayed them.
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Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.
