David Abram Quotes
Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.David Abram
Quotes to Explore
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When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
Maggie Hassan -
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
Nas -
You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
Kate Middleton -
I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
Samuel L. Jackson -
This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
Ralph Nader -
If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
Randi Weingarten
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
Vernon Wells -
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.
Laila Ali -
If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.
Kapil Sibal -
You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
J. J. Watt
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The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.
Rachel Bloom -
I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap.
Mac DeMarco -
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
Anthony de Mello -
A small act is worth a million thoughts.
Ai Weiwei -
My first significant break was when I was 15, going on 16, and my cousin Courtney 'Bear' Sills told me you can make a career out of writing songs. He was the one who put me in with 112. The first song I did with 112 was 'We Can Do It Anywhere.'
Jason Boyd
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I need some me-time. I have to remember to rest, because I have a natural energy and I don't want to burn out.
Lea Michele -
'Southcliffe' is extremely dark. It's an extremely depressing, intense story, but the shoot was like being at Disneyland. It was unbelievably different from what we were filming.
Kaya Scodelario -
Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.
Jon M. Chu -
That whole thing: the paparazzi, a gazillion magazines. You can't lie on a beach. God forbid your bikini rides up too far or you've eaten too many doughnuts and they catch you wiping your mouth. That must be exhausting, that lack of privacy.
Megan Follows -
Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.
Harry Shearer -
Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.
David Abram