Neil Strauss Quotes

I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.

Neil Strauss

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• We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

  

  Ramez Naam
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  • Brain
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• When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Intent

• I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • Time
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• Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
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• I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Respect
  • Doing
  • Canada

• Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

  

  Pat Morita
  • America
  • You
  • Comedy

• I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it's also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Enjoy

• When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Real
  • You

• Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young people in Israel. Most families have three kids as opposed to one or two, so a big proportion of the population is under 30.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Kids
  • High

• I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Funny
  • Credit
  • Tongue

• You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Excitement

• I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Life
  • Money
  • Culture

• The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Great
  • Poetry
  • Dreams

• To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Future
  • Free

• The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • God
  • Hand
  • Door

• I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • America
  • Strong
  • Brother

• Most kinds of aggressive behavior among members of the same species are responsive to crowding in the environment.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Environment

• You want to be a trader, come be a trader. The door's open. You want to travel six days a week, you want to travel the world, the door's open.

  

  Ivan Glasenberg
  • Travel
  • Door
  • Open

• I was doing a lot of drama until I took the comedy role in the series 'Car 54, Where Are You?,' and I've been tagged as a comedian ever since.

  

  Charlotte Rae
  • Comedy
  • Car
  • Drama

• We are living in a world where greed has become for the wealthiest people their own religion, and they make no apologies for it.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • World
  • Greed

• I think Iran is a very dangerous country - very dangerous to Israel, to the Middle East, and also to the United States. They export terrorism. And they also have the ability to manufacture rockets and missiles.

  

  Dutch Ruppersberger
  • Country

• Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Job
  • Society
  • Lost

• I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.

  

  Neil Strauss