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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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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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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If something was to happen to part of my family, I don't know what I'd do.
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The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.
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Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.
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I tend to think year-by-year and tournament-by-tournament.
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The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.
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The flesh is at the heart of the world.
