Neil Strauss Quotes
Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.
 
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	My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.   
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	Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.   
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	We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!   
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	So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.   
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	The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.   
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	It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.   
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	Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.   
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	The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.   
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	Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.   
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	One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.   
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	Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.   
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	As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.   
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	My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.   
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	If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.   
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	Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.   
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	I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.   
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	I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.   
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	I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.   
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	It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.   
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	“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”   
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	Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.   
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	German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it.   
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	I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of "Why should I share my money with these people?" We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."   
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	Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					