Joseph Butler Quotes
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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How lucky am I?
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.
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We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.
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The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.
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I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
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Descartes may have made a lot of mistakes, but he was right about this: you cannot doubt the existence of your own consciousness. That's the first feature of consciousness, it's real and irreducible. You cannot get rid of it by showing that it's an illusion in a way that you can with other standard illusions.
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Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.
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I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.
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Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.
