Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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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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Our brains are very, very good at self-delusion. What happens is, it releases the stress hormone cortisol in the brain, which leads to foggy thinking, so you're not even able to judge well whether you're working well or not.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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When you're younger, you think you're in competition with everyone. You think everyone's success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of. You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you're in competition with is yourself.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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To be a simple animal like my father, untroubled by consciousness, or conscience. To sleep soundly, at east with your certainties, men as expendable as beef. (p. 161)
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I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
