Esther Perel Quotes
To look at infidelity from the point of view of sex is a complete narrowing of the phenomenon. There's a reason that the commandment is repeated twice in the Bible - once for doing it and once for thinking about it. We have always created structures and broken structures. It is essential to the human spirit.
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
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Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
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Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.
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In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.
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Democrats refuse to deal with reality. They make things up, sensationalize common sense solutions, and exacerbate this obsession over political correctness.
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You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
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The best would be to fly in space with family and friends.
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I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.
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It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light.
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What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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'I pledged myself to show you wonders.'I drew her farther from the building. 'I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.'
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Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.
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To look at infidelity from the point of view of sex is a complete narrowing of the phenomenon. There's a reason that the commandment is repeated twice in the Bible - once for doing it and once for thinking about it. We have always created structures and broken structures. It is essential to the human spirit.
