Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.
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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
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'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.
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You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.
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Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
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People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?
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When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.
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When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.
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The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.
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Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care.
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She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her
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It was my job to interest them in everything that was happening, to make the arrival of the Daily Express each morning an event, to show them the world outside Bolton and Bacup, to give them courage and confidence to overcome the drabness of their lives.
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People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.
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I never had a real job, you know, I always knew I was destined for stardom. That's tongue in cheek by the way in case you haven't noticed.
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The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
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I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917 . . . The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands.
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Maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset.
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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
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We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.
