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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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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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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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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Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted.
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As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
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I walk unseenOn the dry smooth-shaven green,To behold the wandering moon,Riding near her highest noon,Like one that had been led astrayThrough the heav'n's wide pathless way,And oft, as if her head she bowed,Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
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I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
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Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
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I've been a Marvel reader since I was just a kid, and I've dreamed of being a Marvel writer for almost as long, so being tapped to officially join the team is truly something.
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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.
