Parker Palmer Quotes
There is as much guidance in way that closes behind us as in way that opens up ahead of us. The opening may reveal our potentials while the closing may reveal our limits-two sides to the same coin, the coin called identity.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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Well, I have no problem with 3-D but I don't think it's necessarily a blanket requirement for every film.
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As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.
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I have been blind. I have been paralyzed. But each day, if I wake up, then I know He's left me here for a reason, and I have to say yes. And I have to get up. And I have to make the best of that day.
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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.
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We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.
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There is as much guidance in way that closes behind us as in way that opens up ahead of us. The opening may reveal our potentials while the closing may reveal our limits-two sides to the same coin, the coin called identity.
