Neil Strauss Quotes
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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I love working in New York.
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I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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I felt perhaps 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was a little premature. It was a huge hit around the world - it was still running in the theatres - and the Americans at that time were already shooting the remake, and I was like, 'Whoa! Give it a break of five or six years and get a little inspired, and then do it.'
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It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
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As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.
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I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
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I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.
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There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right … Or put it another way, 'The future of computer power is pure simplicity.'
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I always wanted to be a hairdresser.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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Don’t mistake being fearful and weak-minded for being nice.
