Neil Strauss Quotes
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
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In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.
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Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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‘...You know what they call you expatriates? White leeches.’
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'It was not seemly to raise your flags on the minarets.'
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Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
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The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: 'We the people.' It wasn't, 'We the conglomerates.' It wasn't, 'We the corporations.' It was, 'We the people.'
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Mo: Ginger, how can you think about sex at a time like this? Madmen are about to destroy the earth!Ginger: Can you think of a better time? I don't know about you, girl, but I want to have a G-spot orgasm before Armageddon hits.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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Greed puts out the sun.
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Fearful concatenation of circumstances.
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Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.
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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
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Love is a velvet prison.
