Warren Farrell Quotes
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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To me, the most powerful people in this country, politically, are mayors. If you took all the mayors of the 25 biggest cities and you got them together, you could do more on that level than you ever could through the bureaucracy in Washington.
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To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.
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Both my mom and my dad have always included me in intelligent conversations about people, about characters, about how people work. My dad and my mom still read all scripts that I find interesting. I send them an e-mail, and I'm like, 'Okay, I have my eye on this,' or whatever.
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Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.
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I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.
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When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.
