Etty Hillesum Quotes
Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
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I haven't even had to learn, but it's just this natural thing to be able to express any emotion I have through the tone of my voice.
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Whatever the eventual judgment, the political implications of Hutton are already clear. A devastating indictment of Labour in power - and of our political system itself.
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We go up just into space - space is most commonly accepted to be 100 kilometres above the earth's surface, and we go up just beyond that to about 350,000 ft.
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I fell in love with Crawford because when she was twenty or twenty five, she would dance and talk and sing and do the things that Peppy's character needs to do.
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It's a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind, I'm still 18 years old trying to emulate Pantera in my bedroom.
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I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.
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If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.
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The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.
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Life is frustrating enough. Your hobby isn't supposed to put you over the edge.
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Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.
