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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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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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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As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
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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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You`ve got James Comey on camera on Capitol Hill saying, - no, it is not much less of an offense than Hillary Clinton. In fact, it is far more serious. It was prosecuted.
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Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.
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Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.
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I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.
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I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
