Andrew Potter Quotes
The object of their desire, the “essential” core of life, is something called authenticity, and finding the authentic has become the foremost spiritual quest of our time. It is a quest fraught with difficulty, as it takes place at the intersection of some of our culture’s most controversial issues, including environmentalism and the market economy, personal identity and the consumer culture, and artistic expression and the meaning of life.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
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The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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Johnny stopped and leaned over, partly from curiosity, but also to disguise the fact that his sexual efforts could not compete with the mention of such a large sum of money.
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Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
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Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
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I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.
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I love every time that I get to be on a stage with Halsey. She's so incredible.
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Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.
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We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.
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Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain:Fought all his battles o'er again;And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
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The object of their desire, the “essential” core of life, is something called authenticity, and finding the authentic has become the foremost spiritual quest of our time. It is a quest fraught with difficulty, as it takes place at the intersection of some of our culture’s most controversial issues, including environmentalism and the market economy, personal identity and the consumer culture, and artistic expression and the meaning of life.
