Etty Hillesum Quotes
Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.

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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply my skills as an actor.
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
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I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
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I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much.
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Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
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I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.
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What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
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My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
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I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.
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As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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They give her tractors and things to play with instead of dolls, just to prove that girls are exactly the same as boys. Mind you, they're a bit illogical, it seems to me, because they have never forced me to play with dolls, which I would have thought would have proved the point just as effectively.
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Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.