M. C. Escher Quotes
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
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We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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Kierkegaard writes: If Christianity were so easy and cozy, why should God in his Scriptures have set Heaven and Earth in motion and threatened eternal punishments? - Question: But then in that case why is this Scriptures so unclear?
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
