Edmond Jabes Quotes
In your loneliness, you hear the word from far away and then, in gratitude, look at it so closely that you cannot but drown in it.
Quotes to Explore
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
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I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.
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We are one another's strength.
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'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'
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Some say once gone you're gone foreverAnd some say you're going to come back.Some say you rest in the arms of the SaviourIf in sinful ways you lack.Some say that they're coming back in a garden,Bunch of carrots and little sweet peas.I think I'll just let the mystery be.
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I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
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Ninety percent of my mentors have been male, most of them with very little in common with me on a personal level - from life experience, work experience, backgrounds, etc.
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My motivation wasn't really to get a $95 million contract, you know?
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I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
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I realized my calling was to use the arts and ministry to help young people.
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We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
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There's a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything's very specifically laid out, the shots and what they need - but there also can be a freedom to allowing the actors to find genuine moments.
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Great companies are built on great products.
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I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.
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My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
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As a stylist, it is important for me to always steer my clients in the right direction and to push them when I feel it is necessary.
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I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.
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When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
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I understand now that my soul is my power, not perfection or my ego. I continue to teach this to my children, despite their glamorous careers. If we can maintain our core values, the exteriors take second place and become a gift, a source of gratitude.
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I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.
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The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.
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In your loneliness, you hear the word from far away and then, in gratitude, look at it so closely that you cannot but drown in it.
