Ivan Illich Quotes
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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I want to be sublimely happy.
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Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.
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Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.
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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
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Study the past if you want to define the future.
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You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.
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The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
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I want to see my family. We all want to get a great shower, get cleaned up and have a great dinner.
