Neil Strauss Quotes
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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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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Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
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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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It's funny - when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. It's no coincidence these guys get in and get out.
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If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
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'I say to the Dublin government, Mr Faulkner says it's 'hands across the border to Dublin'. I say, if they don't behave themselves in the South, it will be shots across the border!'
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Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.
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Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.
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Love is a velvet prison.
