Esther Perel Quotes
For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in a state of crisis and fear the loss of a predictable future - they start to have conversations for the first time about love, sex, monogamy, and marriage. Most couples don't negotiate or don't even converse about any of these things until the crisis of the affair has actually forced them to. Why does it take infidelity to get us talking about the stuff that should be there from the start?
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I studied Morse code.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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Wherever I find love I will accept it.
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I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.
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Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.
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In general, we are lazy as consumers and just want to label people as good guy, bad guy.
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To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.
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For two people to satisfy everything each needs for their entire lives is a tall order. Some couples may be equipped to do this. Some are not.
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I told my wife, when I go up to the garage and I wash my Cobra, I feel like I'm cheating on her.
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'Fury' whetted my appetite for a bigger canvas and this idea of world creation. You can do amazing things as a filmmaker if you have the proper tools, and those are time and money.
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I would say the biggest challenge I had as a woman in science is be a mom. It's really hard. It's very hard work having children, and I tell kids this all the time.
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The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
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My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
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For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in a state of crisis and fear the loss of a predictable future - they start to have conversations for the first time about love, sex, monogamy, and marriage. Most couples don't negotiate or don't even converse about any of these things until the crisis of the affair has actually forced them to. Why does it take infidelity to get us talking about the stuff that should be there from the start?
