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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The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.
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That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It's surreal.
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I was very upset because I did not have a fair trial to prove my loyalty to this country.
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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.
