Edward T. Hall Quotes
The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I'm a composer, man.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
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Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult.
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Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.
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The principal fact of life is the free mind.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.
