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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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In the world view of tauhid, man fears only one power, and is answerable before only one judge. He turns to only one qibla, and directs his hopes and desires to only one source. And the corollary is that all else is false and pointless all the diverse and variegated tendencies, strivings, fears, desires and hopes of man are vain and fruitless.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.
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When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.
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I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
