Tracey Ullman is a British born comedian, singer and actor. Best known for her television series, ‘The Tracey Ullman Show’, and HBO’s Tracey Takes On, Ulmann is a master at portraying different ethnicities in either gender. The critically acclaimed HBO series ‘Tracey Takes On’ won eight Emmy Awards. Ulmann became a United States citizen in 2006, the same year she published a best-selling knitting book called ‘Knit 2 Together’.
“You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.”
“How I perceive actors getting involved in politics and charities... they want even more attention for themselves, it’s in their nature.”
“Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?”
“As I get older, I just prefer to knit.”
- Tracey Ullman (1959- )
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Possibly the most influential woman in the world, Oprah Winfrey is host to The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. She is also the most philanthropic African-American of all time. It behooves us to listen to her thoughts and her words.
“You never have to do anything. Don’t know what to do? Do nothing. I wait. And that has been a big lesson: to be willing, to be still with myself, and trust myself and my higher power to help me make the right decision.”
- Oprah Winfrey (1954- )
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May Sarton, an American author and poet, wrote beautiful prose and poetry which captured the essence of contemplation and solitude.
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
- May Sarton (1912-1995)
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Simone Weil was a French philosopher and social activist. In 1915 at the age of six, she refused to eat sugar, in solidarity with troops on the Western Front. She died young from tuberculosis.
“Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.”
- Simone Weil (1909-1943)
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An American visionary, poet, and architect, Buckminster Fuller devoted his life to the philosophical question, “Does humanity have a chance to survive successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?” This stamp, based on an original painting by Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965), first appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in on January 10th 1964.
“You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever a mystery to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage of others.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
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A mathematician of the first order, Blaise Pascal was a precocious child, studying Euclid at age twelve. Although he died young, Pascal influenced modern day economics and social science. Here is a profound quote from Pascal.
“All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.”
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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As a young child, this American visionary and inventor of the geodesic dome often made things from materials he found in the woods, sometimes making his own tools as well. A quote from Buckminster Fuller.
“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
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Goethe was a German writer whose work spans many fields, from poetry and drama to science and art. His influence of German philosophy is immeasurable.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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R. D. Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist whot wrote extensively on mental illness.
“Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.”
- R.D. Laing (1927-1989)
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Carl Jung, famed Swiss psychiatrist, was innovative in his work in a number of arenas, including acknowledging those aspects of one’s psyche that are often avoided as well as his exploration of using dreams to better understand hidden aspects of the self.
“Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
- Carl Jung (1875-1961)
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Andy Rooney, humorist and fairly cantankerous commentator for the CBS news program ’60 Minutes’ speaks gently about love. Three quotes from Rooney.
“I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.”
“I've learned ... that when you're in love, it shows.”
“I've learned ... that a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.”
- Andy Rooney (1919- )
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Two quotes from Anatole France, a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”
“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.”
- Chinese proverb
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American psychologist, Abraham Maslow, is most widely known for his proposal that there is a hierarchy of human needs ranging from basic physical needs to what he called “self actualization.” Many therapists consider him to be the father of ‘humanistic psychology’.
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.”
- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
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Two quotes from Anatole France, a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”
“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.”
- Chinese proverb
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A quotation by American historian, attorney, author, professor and the ‘Librarian of Congress’ appointed by President Ford.
“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”
- Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004)
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