Mircea Eliade Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
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Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.
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Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
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Being able to motivate girls to reach for their dreams, and giving them someone positive to look up to.
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I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.
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I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
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The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.
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I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.
