Esther Perel Quotes
I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the illusion of having massive amounts of choice and saddles you with the freedom of being able to dabble in that choice. And at the same time, you are left with the tyranny of self-doubt and uncertainty about whether you made the right choice.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.
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When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
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I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
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To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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I don't know. I don't know shit about love. And even though I'm gay, I don't know shit about being gay.
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I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the illusion of having massive amounts of choice and saddles you with the freedom of being able to dabble in that choice. And at the same time, you are left with the tyranny of self-doubt and uncertainty about whether you made the right choice.
