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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Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.
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Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.
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You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
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I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
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What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.
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Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.
