Bernadette Roberts Quotes
This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed.
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How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies? The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.
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Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.
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I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
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I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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See you, my dear doctor, me, I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
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Anywhere in the world is a great gig if the people are pumped to hear some music.
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I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.
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This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
