Esther Perel Quotes
In dating, if you say no, your lover goes on to the next person. In marriage, if you say no, the person stays.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.
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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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I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, 'I feel fat.'
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Any street cop knows you will be sued or involved in some type of litigation throughout your career.
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My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.
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I guess I like more of the skinny jeans. I'm not very fond of all the stretch, so I try to avoid too much stretch fabric.
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One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.
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The government invented the Internet.
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We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.
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I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
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Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.
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The good part about this is you get to see what type of character you have as a team.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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Sometimes we put so much effort into things we're doing, like dating or wedding planning, that we don't stop to think about whether or not we even want the results of that effort.
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There was a time when I let go of the reins and thought, What's meant to happen will happen. That's probably one of my biggest faults as a person, and something that I've had to work really hard on: believing in this idea that the universe will decide for me. The universe is not going to decide in your favor.
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I was averaging about one movie a year my whole career, and that was because I'm fussy. I probably could have done more.
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In dating, if you say no, your lover goes on to the next person. In marriage, if you say no, the person stays.
