Esther Perel Quotes

Sex is about where you can take me, not what you can do to me.

Esther Perel

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• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • School
  • Year
  • Graduation

• Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Me
  • Care
  • Bored

• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Hand

• My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Water
  • Best
  • Beauty

• I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Man
  • Black
  • Best

• The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.

  

  Dan Hill
  • American
  • Made
  • Deals

• You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Couple
  • Internet
  • Race

• In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• I'm a gun owner.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Gun
  • Owner

• An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • New
  • Economy
  • Open

• I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • Know
  • Brother
  • Lie

• Pity him who lives at homeHappy with his life,Without a dream, a flexing of wings,To make him relinquishEven the warmest ember of his hearth!Pity him who is happy!He lives because life lasts.Nothing within him whispersMore than the primeval law:That life leads to the grave.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Dream

• Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Money

• I am a parcel of vain strivings tiedBy a chance bond together,Dangling this way and that, their linksWere made so loose and wide,Methinks,For milder weather.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Together

• I think there's always an adjustment when somebody new is runnings things, from the top down.

  

  Dash Mihok

• Order and tidiness is the first law of Heaven.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Law
  • Heaven

• Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.

  

  James McCartney
  • Up
  • Music
  • Home

• The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

  

  Alan Rosenberg
  • Reality

• We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

  

  Arthur Erickson

• Tak Fujimoto and I, when we started getting enough of a budget where we could afford the right lenses - 'cause we started out doing low-budget pictures together - we started experimenting with this subjective camera thing. And we kind of fell in love with the idea of using that as our close-up.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Up
  • Together

• This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Men
  • War

• Sex is about where you can take me, not what you can do to me.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Sex