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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I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.
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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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When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.
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We have definitely accomplished all our mission objectives.
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The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.
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If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
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...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.
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Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.
