Gabriel Marcel Quotes
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
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If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.
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I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
