Edmond Jabes Quotes
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
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Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.
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I want to take a more international direction with my career.
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Cut off the head of the snake
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
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In defeating terror, Israel’s cause is our cause.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.
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Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me.
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I started reading DC stuff much later in my life. You realize that there's a huge difference between the Marvel universe and the DC universe and the characters that own it.
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Based on my experience, I believe that Ben Sasse has the right policy background, a notable commitment to public service - and, perhaps most importantly, the courage - to help renew our country.
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I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.
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When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.
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I need a producer who will look for a good script. I need a director whose purpose to make a film is not for his survival but because he loves making films.
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When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
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I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.
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It's very important to understand that the 'Talk' piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different parts of the book and made a new piece.
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There's a song called 'The Lights of My Hometown' that goes back to me growing up a regular kid. I mean, I lived in a town that I loved, but was too small for the dreams I was dreaming. You leave thinking the world has a lot more to offer than your hometown, only to realize years down the road that no matter where you grow up, you will never be able to recreate the innocence and feeling of 'home' anywhere else in the world. No matter who you are, or where that little town is, that's something we all have in common.
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When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker.
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One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.
