Etty Hillesum Quotes
Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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I recalled when I worked in the woodsand the bars of Madras, Oregon.That short-haired joy and roughness-America-your stupidity.I could almost love you again.
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What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they the Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston Astrodome all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
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Another friend, a child psychologist from the college, once commented that Rachel at age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play.
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Perhaps, The man-hero is not the exceptional monster, But he that of repetition is most master.
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I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.
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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
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When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ
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Valuing public servants would boost morale among those on the front line of implementing government policy.
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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.
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Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.
