Arthur Kleinman Quotes
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
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I'm a normal guy.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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I always write the pieces I want to write.
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
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Oooh, oh, how many eyesHave seen their dream?Oh, how many armsHave felt their dream?How many hearts, baby...Have felt their world stand still?
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Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.
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If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is a guy. I will. And I'll stop myself and think, 'Hey, hang on, what am I doing here?'
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The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
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I was struck with that particular passage which says: 'Seek ye the kingdom of Heaven and all things shall be added unto you.'
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There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.
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Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.
