Etty Hillesum Quotes
Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
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Life is a journey which is far more enjoyable when your holding hands with the ones you love
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Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
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When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. … there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
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The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.
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'I hope they understand that I really understandThat they don't understand'
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I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.
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Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.
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I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.
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When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.
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There's no doubt you smoke to calm yourself. I know I do. That's my decision about how I keep calm. I prefer that to Prozac. In fact I think it's healthier. I couldn't go to another New York party where they're all drinking water and on Prozac and telling you off for smoking.
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This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish.
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Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.
