Bernadette Roberts Quotes
Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
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The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.
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There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.
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Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
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I saw 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was four years old. Sure, I thought Princess Leia was awesome. But the character I identified with most was Luke Skywalker. I left the theater certain the Force was strong with me, that I could train to be a Jedi and wield a lightsaber just like Luke.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
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One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.
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A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense.
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The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.
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Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.
