“I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I was entering marriage with the highest set of expectations that humans have ever brought to the institution. It was really good to find that out. It doesn't have to be the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the moon and the stars - it can just be the moon. It's enough that it just can be what it is.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 152 of 303
“The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.”
“I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.”
“Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.”
“I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.”
“I'm not very computer savvy.”
“What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else”
“I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.”
“My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.”
“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?”
“I'm not picky, quite honestly.”
“To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.”
“We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.”
“One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.”
“It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.”
“If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion or what have you, what gets foregrounded?”
“If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.”
“The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.”
“None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.”
“When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.”