Neil Strauss Quotes
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actual 'SNL' stage. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I wasn't more nervous.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
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I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven't had to sacrifice anything.
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What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character.
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Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.
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Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.
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Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.
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If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.
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When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.
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Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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The ignorant are not blissful; they are the butt of a joke they're not even aware of.
