Esther Perel Quotes
When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become.
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I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.
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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
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The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.
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What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
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O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
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With stand-up, I can have an idea, go down the street to a comedy club and work on it, flesh it out, book a venue, people will come, then film it. I do all that myself; I never have to answer to anybody.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.
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We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.
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I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.
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The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
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When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology it isn't that through the obtaining of real knowledge that he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all.
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Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.
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When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become.
