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 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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What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.
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The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to live smaller lifestyles; not have the American way of life or give up the American Dream is just ridiculous. It is the opposite of the case; a new energy paradigm will create opportunity.
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We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.
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I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel, or to dramatize history like Vidal or Ellroy, or have an explosively inventive mind like Bulgakov, would be an incredible thing. I don't have that. I only have what I have.
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I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
