Etty Hillesum Quotes
Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
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GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.
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Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.
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Yeah, I like to gamble.
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Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
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You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
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Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
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I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'
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The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.
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Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
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I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.
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Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.
