Mel Ferrer Quotes
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.
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People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
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Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.
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You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.
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Chris Cornell: Inside Soundgarden, Audioslave Singer's Final Days. Rolling Stone (May 29, 2017).
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There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.
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We're always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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The government doesn't go about refuting everything that floats around.
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Semrad taught us that most human suffering is related to love and loss and that the job of therapists is to help people “acknowledge, experience, and bear” the reality of life—with all its pleasures and heartbreak. “The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves,” he’d say, urging us to be honest with ourselves about every facet of our experience. He often said that people can never get better without knowing what they know and feeling what they feel.
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I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.
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Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.
