Esther Perel Quotes

For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the deception, to the duplicity. It is the structure of an affair - not the sexual or emotional behavior or what people actually are doing.

Esther Perel

• People
• Emotional
• Lying
• Behavior
• Deception
• Affair
• Secrecy

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• We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

  

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• I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

  

  Larry Wall
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• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

  Sally Pearson
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• My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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• I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

  

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• I don't have many friends.

  

  Larry David
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• I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

  

  Adam Arkin
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• Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.

  

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• It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Philosophy was once considered science.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.

  

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• Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Believe
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• When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  

  Yul Brynner
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• There have been men who have proposed to me to return to slavery the black warriors of Port Hudson and Olustee to their masters to conciliate the South. I should be damned in time and in eternity for so doing. The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
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• Man lebt nur insofern man nach seinen eignen Ideen lebt. Die Grundsätze sind nur Mittel, der Beruf ist Zweck an sich.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

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• Der umgang mit frauen ist das element guter sitten.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I do not want other artists to imitate my work – they do even when I tell them not to – but only imitate my example for freedom and independence from all external, decadent and corrupting influences..

  

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• The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

  

  Francis Bacon
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• I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

  

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• One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

  

  Alan Rickman
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• I wish that more people, especially young people, were taught about self-love at a younger age.

  

  Jamila Woods
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• For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the deception, to the duplicity. It is the structure of an affair - not the sexual or emotional behavior or what people actually are doing.

  

  Esther Perel
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Lying