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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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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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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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.
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What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God.
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I feel that a lot of human spirituality stems from the belief that we are unique and special in the universe, but maybe we are just what happens when there is proper temperature and proper distance from the right type of star.
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I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.
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All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.'
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Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
