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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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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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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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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Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.
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I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.
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'Peeples' is definitely not 'Meet the Parents'. It's more a movie about family secrets. It does explore class issues somewhat, but it's mostly about living your own truth.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.
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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.
