Esther Perel Quotes
On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant fear, but we can't live without any. The fear of loss is essential to love.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
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I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
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Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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Since I came from another part of the world, I expected many differences in the way things worked, but at the end of the day, there actually were more similarities between the American and Indian entertainment industry: the same chaos, creativity, passion, and genius all around.
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I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
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On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant fear, but we can't live without any. The fear of loss is essential to love.
