Carl Jung Quotes
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any.
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Thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.
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Sometimes I'll go on a Twitter spree and reply as much as I can. Talking to my fans is so much fun even if it is in 140 characters or less.
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The TED talk I gave, that gave me another character I didn't know about. I'm not saying the mind of a hero, but a kind of responsibility. Every word I'm speaking, it's not from myself. I'm speaking for and representing the people of communist North Korea.
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God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.
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At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
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The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
