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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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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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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It was a still afternoon - the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss: an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath.
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When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.
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War is what happens when language fails.
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Going to school, everybody expected you to be Stephanie Tanner. Establishing a separate entity from Stephanie after all those years, I did everything I could in the beginning to be everything but Stephanie Tanner.
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I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.
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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.
