Edmond Jabes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
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I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
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Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.
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Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another's, or in this case several others', expense.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.
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I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.
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When I talk to you I am happy. Because you listen, and my words find a home.
