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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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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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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A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.
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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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Sometimes you know that no one can replace the person you love, and your heart will never be the same.
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For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.
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The difference between those who do and those who don't is that those who don't believe it when they are told they can't.
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There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.
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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
