Bernadette Roberts Quotes
In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
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The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.
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Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake.
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I like the relationship between the master and the student. Each piece has new problems, and each is different. They're all an indentured servitude. There's that subjugation that you have to put yourself under. It's a give and take. There is work involved, and during that time, the greatest things are revealed.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
