Erik Erikson Quotes
The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.Erik Erikson
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
Ralph Waite -
I wanted to get some nose job, because I don't like how my nose tip looks. My hand is also not as pretty, especially my thumb nails. Many people told me that I have ugly hands.
Park Shin-hye -
I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
Sally Phillips -
I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
Edie Falco -
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
Earl Wilson -
Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.
Cameron Mathison
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The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.
James Brown -
Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.
Al Pacino -
Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.
Barack Obama -
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
Lisa See -
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown -
When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
Oscar Robertson -
My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.
Laura Harrier -
The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
Bill Vaughan
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I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
John Poindexter -
A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.
Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest -
The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.
Erik Erikson