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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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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I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.
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There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime. It is not political. To give concessions on political status would put many people in jeopardy.
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We can’t save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
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Geeks are the coolest people.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
