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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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
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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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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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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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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.
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My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.
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The act of me just being robust in the world is so radical - it's so radical for a black woman to think she's going to be a star, because it takes so much to get there. It's still a battle every day, but I feel happy because I feel like I cracked the code and figured out how to work through it. Now I want to give the map to other women.
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When I talk to you I am happy. Because you listen, and my words find a home.
