Neil Strauss Quotes
A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.
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It's all about training smart.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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L'amour-propre est la source en nous de tous les autres.
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Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor.
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A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.
