Neil Strauss Quotes
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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.
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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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.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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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.
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Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.
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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.
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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.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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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.
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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.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
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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!
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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.
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Most kinds of aggressive behavior among members of the same species are responsive to crowding in the environment.
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Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.
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I can't even look at those 'women's magazines' anyway. I love fashion, but I look at the pictures of the skinny models, and they're wearing clothes I can't even fit on my fingers. And I look at that and I think, if that is what a woman is supposed to look like, then I must not be one.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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I'd do a really tasteful Playboy shoot, but I'd want at least 700,000 for it.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.
