Edward T. Hall Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on.
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We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
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Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.
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... a penny saved is better than a penny earned.
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I think I have a reputation for being really serious. In interviews I use big words, but I'm just an emotional goofball. I play practical jokes all the time.
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Age affects how people experience time.
