Esther Perel Quotes

In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life.

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• I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Support
  • Grateful

• You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

  

  Hal Holbrook
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  • War
  • Rich

• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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  • America
  • Look

• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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  • Up
  • Long

• The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
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  • Time
  • House

• I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Funny
  • Die

• It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.

  

  Nancy Pickard
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  • Joy
  • Talk

• The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

  

  Pam Brown
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  • Dark
  • Courage

• But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
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• My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
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  • Kind
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• The British people have the right to decide - have the right to decide whether or not they want to be part of the E.U. And I shouldn't interfere in this.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
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• Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

  

  Jackie Chan
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  • Helping
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• When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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  • Girl
  • Sexy

• In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice people? Certainly Mahatma Gandhi was.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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  • World
  • Nice

• So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Men
  • Together

• I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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  • Good
  • Alone

• The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Good
  • Society

• So yes, the roles are getting more and more like me. But that's because Xena was so entirely unlike me. Most people aren't really aware of that.

  

  Lucy Lawless
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• Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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  • Security
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• This duality can be pursued further and is related to a duality between past and future and the notions of control and knowledge. Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it.

  

  Claude Shannon
  • May
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• Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Define
  • Terms

• Music was the vehicle for propaganda

  

  Christian Picciolini
  • Music
  • Propaganda
  • Vehicle

• In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life.

  

  Esther Perel
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