Miriam Toews Quotes
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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.
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You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.
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If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
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All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victims of abuse; that is how they both understandably feel, and it's how they both understandably behave. The Jewish psyche is in victimized reaction to the Holocaust, and the Palestinian psyche is in victimized reaction to the Israelis.
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It's a mindset, it's all in the mind.
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It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.
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From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.
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We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races and all beliefs. It is vital and dynamic. And it works. We have the means of shaping the world in our pattern. If we do, freedom will be assured for all men. The decision is in the hands of this generation. It is a challenge to our political competence. For Western civilization it is the greatest challenge of all time.
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Maybe we were together in another life...in a parallel universe, maybe our paths are not supposed to cross twice, maybe your arms are not supposed to go around me. I hear about you now & then, I wonder where you are & how you feel. Sometimes I walk by & I look up to your balcony, just to make sure you were real-just to make sure that I can still feel you...it appears to me that Destiny Rules.
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A sailor at war with the wind and the sea.
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We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.
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A man who keeps asking you to trust him is always hiding something.
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I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.
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The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.
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Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
