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 want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.
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People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
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Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?
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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.
