Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
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Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.
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As you get older, you get more... genealogical.
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Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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We commute through computers. Spirits stay mute while our ego spread rumors. We're survivalists turned to consumers
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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In America, we eat until we're full, which means we usually go past the point of satiety because satiety actually follows digestion.
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That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.
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God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make myself presentable to Him. I can accept ownership of my poverty and powerlessness and neediness.
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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
