Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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At a certain point in my career, I was probably having a difficult time 'holding space.' So you get a character that has to be commanding in order for him to resonate and make sense.
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Experience, the interpreter between formative nature and the human race, teaches how that nature acts among mortals; and being constrained by necessity cannot act otherwise than as reason, which is its helm, requires her to act.
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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
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Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.
