Tyrone Hayes Quotes
Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.
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Okay - before I even had a baby, I would dream of the day I could make ponytails on my kid. I don't know why. I somehow got it in my head that it would be such a cool thing.
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I’m used to that. It often seems to me that’s all detective work is - wiping out your false starts and beginning again.
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Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.
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I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.
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Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.
