Peter Abelard Quotes
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
Quotes to Explore
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.
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Her friends have become who they've become by default. Their dreams are forgotten, or were never formulated to begin with.
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It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.
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The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
