Esther M. Friesner Quotes
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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We need workfare over welfare.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.
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A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.
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Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.
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You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.
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Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.
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Going for a walk is always helpful for me. I also love gratitude exercises.
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Being brave doesn't mean always having to fight alone.
