Paul Ricoeur Quotes
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
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The will for the deed.
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My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
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My owner is life and that's what I fight for.
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Fools are without number.
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I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably at camp or school plays where you get to have great range. At camp, I remember getting to play a 50-year-old man.
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Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.
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Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look on the Internet and check him out!
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
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They wanted to force me to be someone that I wasn't. They wanted me to delegitimize myself as a trans woman and I was not taking that. As a proud black trans woman, I was not going to allow the system to delegitimize, hyper-sexualize and take my identity away from me.
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I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive.
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Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart –The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd – To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
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Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
