Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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I have a lot of vanity.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
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Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
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Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
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I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
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I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
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With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.
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I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.
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I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.
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My job gives me the attention I'd otherwise crave.
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By training and keeping doctors in underserved areas, we're working toward a goal of increasing access to quality health care for more of our communities.
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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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The flesh is at the heart of the world.
