Etty Hillesum Quotes
And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.
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Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
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Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff.
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As individuals are best off believing they control their behaviour, the judiciary is best off imputing that control - barring powerful extenuating factors such as mental illness.
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You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.
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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
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And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.
