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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A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
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The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.
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Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives.
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I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
