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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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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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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When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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Once upon a time, I could sing three hours. Now, when you see me say 'I'm done,' I'm done; ain't nothing left till the next night.
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My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.
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Capitalism is a system that's ultimately predicated on and depends on some form of inequality. Feminism has always intersected with capitalism in terms of women's labor and gendered divisions of labor.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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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?
