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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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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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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I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
