Edmond Jabes Quotes
At an early age I found myself facing the incomprehensible, the unthinkable, death. Ever since, I have known nothing on this earth can be shared because we own nothing. There is a word inside us stronger than all others - and more personal. A word of solitude and certainty, so buried in its night that it is barely audible to itself. A word of refusal, but also of absolute commitment, forging its bonds of silence in the emfathomable silence of the bond. This word cannot be shared. Only sacrificed.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.
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Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
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I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.
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Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.
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The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.
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Men think for themselves when they’re men.
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The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
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The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
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If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
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It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.
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I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
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At an early age I found myself facing the incomprehensible, the unthinkable, death. Ever since, I have known nothing on this earth can be shared because we own nothing. There is a word inside us stronger than all others - and more personal. A word of solitude and certainty, so buried in its night that it is barely audible to itself. A word of refusal, but also of absolute commitment, forging its bonds of silence in the emfathomable silence of the bond. This word cannot be shared. Only sacrificed.
