Neil Strauss Quotes
Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.
Quotes to Explore
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I just want to do my job.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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I do what I can do to help my defense.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.
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And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.
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Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.
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I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.
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Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.
