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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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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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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I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes.
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I'm the girliest girl you'll ever meet.
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I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.
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My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.
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Have you ever thought of yourself as a junior angel crowned with glory and honor? Every one of our Father in Heaven's children is great in His sight. If the Lord sees greatness in you, how then should you see yourself?
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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.
