Karl Jaspers Quotes
No one is guiltless...But no one is beyond the pale of human existence, provided he pays for his guilt.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.
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My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
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A man really determines himself by what he does.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
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The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.
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I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.
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Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.
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The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.
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Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.
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We never had any problem from them. Jyoti Basu has been very kind to us. He was the one who told me "Mother, please do something for these (jail) girls. He has been helpful and always accessible to us over phone. We also never had any problem whenever we wanted to meet him.
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No one is guiltless...But no one is beyond the pale of human existence, provided he pays for his guilt.
