Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov) Quotes
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
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With Caavo, you don't have to know the device name, the network name, the service name. Just which show you want to watch, regardless of whether it's live, recorded, downloaded or streaming.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with our little or big tragedies - the wind is blowing, the leaves are rustling in the trees, the flowers bloom, and die - there's a great comfort in that indifference.
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.
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We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.
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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give No hollow aid; alone - man with his God must strive.
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I think there's nothing better than a comedy that also is not afraid to have those heartfelt moments.
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Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
