Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be.'
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We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
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They draw back into themselves, and are thrown back on their own bodies for gratification. The men become narcissistic and uncertain of the power of any woman, no matter how strange and beautiful, to arouse their desire, but the women remain continually receptive to male advances.
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You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.
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No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.
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What hope has any endeavor which is based on hate and fear?
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Victi vicimus
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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
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I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.
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The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.
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A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.
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The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the spirit's ingenious memorandum to itself and the spirit sees itself in my body, just as I see my own face in a looking glass. My nerves reflect this. The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.
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I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.
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On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
