Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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I wanted to be a stuntman. I didn't really want to be an actor. I took classes when I was younger, but I really sucked.
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A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
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When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.
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The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
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You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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I really do like Solange, sincerely. I'm down for her, and I trust her judgment.
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I absolutely disagree that it was an illegal annexation: a referendum was held, and residents of Crimea chose to rejoin Russia.
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I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
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A Child of Happiness always seems like an old soul living in a new body, and her face is very serious until she smiles, and then the sun lights up the world. ... Children of Happiness always look not quite the same as other children. They have strong, straight legs and walk with purpose. They laugh as do all children, and they play as do all children, they talk child talk as do all children, but they are different, they are blessed, they are special, they are sacred.
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I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
