Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes
If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
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So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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I like to give back.
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Part of me wants to stay involved in wrestling, because I love it. But the thing I loved most about it was the wrestling part of it. I didn't get into it to be famous or to be a TV star: I got into it because I loved the act of wrestling.
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Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.
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Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
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Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.
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It's unbelievable that Phil had to wait so long to get in to the Hall of Fame. Maris's home run record in 1961 has become something of a curse. He wasn't just a home run hitter, he could do everything-hit in the clutch, field, throw and run.
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If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.
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I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.
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I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.
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I'm always thinking about what I might want to do next, but there's still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile.
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If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?
