Rollo May Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
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What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
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The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.
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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
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Since the appearance of Impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red.. .But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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The love, the echoes of long ago you needed the world to know They are in Xanadu The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
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It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
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The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding
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My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.
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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
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Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
