Rollo May Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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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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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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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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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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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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Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.
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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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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
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My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.
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It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn't right; this isn't me.' It's a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you're not feeling something that's true to your heart... everybody's gotta be true.
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Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It's inspired so many people and so much music - in terms of music where mixing desk was the instrument. Central to that is the echo chamber, and I think there's a little bit of a romantic thing there.
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Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
