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.
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.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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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.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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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.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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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.
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My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.
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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.
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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.
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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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.
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I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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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.'
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I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like you're failing or that you're doing it wrong.
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Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
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Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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I can't talk about Kathy Jeung anymore, because she doesn't want me to talk about her, and I'm not even sure that it's an ongoing relationship.
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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.
