"We are all living this dance and it is clearly fraught with making choices. Lots of my choices are bad and that's normal. None of us are attractive at all times. What is attractive to me is authenticity."

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Source : Source: entertainmentrealm.com

Andre Dubus

#Choices Quotes #Normal Quotes #Authenticity Quotes

“Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.”
“Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost.”

Source : Nicanor Parra (1967). “Poems and antipoems: Edited by Miller Williams. [Translators: Fernando Alegría and others.]”
“Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. Use the remainder to induce those you 'work for' to understand and practice...lead yourself, lead your supervisors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.”
“Hate is too strong of an emotion to waste on someone you donâ€™t like”
“The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.”
“An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms”
“Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.”
“Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.”

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