Esther Perel Quotes
Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.
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I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.
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It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
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The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
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To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.
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We're under pressure because we haven't reached the point where we can form a stable government yet.
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I think what's keeping me making music - the money is great, but I make music for the visibility.
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Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
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People have been screaming about the end of times forever, it's always the end of times. But there's just so much evidence that the world is changing so radically right now. How much can the world take?
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Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare state has spawned a whole class of people who spend everything they get when times are good, and look to others to provide for their food and other basic needs when times turn bad.
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It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.
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Recognition by one's peers is the goal of every scientist.
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If anything, the way that you feel is a direct indicator of how far we've come from our symbiotic relationship with nature. In that way, when someone hangs a mirror to every single blemish that's on us, it makes you really reassess what your morals are.
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Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.
