Esther Perel Quotes
You know what happens to sex in marriage? Instead of inviting desire, you monitor it. Especially men: You let her sleep late, you take the kids to the park, and all that time you're thinking, "Tonight I'll get some." That doesn't work.Esther Perel
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
Rafael dos Anjos -
It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
Natalie Merchant -
'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
Walt Dohrn -
My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
Mandy Patinkin -
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown -
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
Sam Mendes
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I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
Kate Clinton -
Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.
Abraham Verghese -
Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
Patricia Velasquez -
How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.
Malcolm Lowry -
I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters...In between two of the segments she asked me...'But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?' I said, 'Type faster.' This was widely quoted, but the 'six months' was changed to 'six minutes,' which bothered me. It's 'six months.'
Isaac Asimov -
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
W. H. Auden
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I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.
Blythe Danner -
I get kind of bored on the treadmill, but I do it. And I do a little bit of weight training. I'm really into the BOSU ball. You have to balance on it, and I do weights and squats on it. I'm pretty good at it, I feel sort of like a Karate Kid.
Christina Hendricks -
I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they're there or not.
Jerry Hall -
The first rule of influence is that there isn't any. The second rule of influence is that it is everywhere.
Kevin Young -
Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
Paul Watson -
I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do.
Max von Sydow
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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
Mary Harris Jones -
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
Jeffery Deaver -
'Sorry' just fit the bill for the crossover that both Lost Stories and I were attempting to do musically.
Armaan Malik -
You know what happens to sex in marriage? Instead of inviting desire, you monitor it. Especially men: You let her sleep late, you take the kids to the park, and all that time you're thinking, "Tonight I'll get some." That doesn't work.
Esther Perel