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What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all got this level of passion about either or both of those directions that I've never really found myself having. ↗

— Danny Pintauro

#acting #both #conflict #directing #directions

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#called #collateral #damage #destruction #happens

Un mot exprime à lui seul ce double caractère, solitaire et inconnaissable, de toute chose au monde : le mot idiotie. Idiôtès, idiot, signifie simple, particulier, unique ; puis, par une extension sémantique dont la signification philosophique est de grande portée, personne dénuée d’intelligence, être dépourvu de raison. Toute chose, toute personne sont ainsi idiotes dès lors qu’elles n’existent qu’en elles-mêmes, c’est-à-dire sont incapables d’apparaître autrement que là où elles sont et telles qu’elles sont : incapables donc, et en premier lieu, de se refléter, d’apparaître dans le double du miroir. Or, c'est le sort finalement de toute réalité que de ne pouvoir se dupliquer sans devenir aussitot autre: l'image offerte par le miroir n'est pas superposable à la réalité qu'elle suggère. ↗

— Clément Rosset

#idiotie #miroir #intelligence

The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation. ↗

— Osman Bakar

#islam #metaphysics #philosophy #intelligence

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#adolescence #aside #authentic #display #experience

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air! ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#although #deeper #even #forty #full

In two years, I'll be making more than Michael Schumacher. ↗

— Nelson Piquet

#making #michael #more #schumacher #than

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#empty #fact #feelings #first #like

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#from time to time #gentleman #heroic #something #time

Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this sentiment half a dozen times--- his plan is to kill us all, and if an innocent child dies in agony and a wicked man breathes his last at an advanced age in his sleep, who are we to call it injustice? ↗

— Valerie Martin

#death #god #grief #injustice #religion