Neil Strauss Quotes
Trust is a chain that gets longer the less you pull on it.
Neil Strauss
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.
Naya Rivera
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We get to a point where we're like, you know what, one day we're just not gonna be here anymore, so I'm going to enjoy every second of it.
Kate Hudson
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
Faye Wattleton
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
W. Averell Harriman
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
Samuel P. Huntington
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
Vicente del Bosque
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I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.
Rafael Nadal
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When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
Lana Del Rey
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Octavio Paz
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
Hans Zimmer
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When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.
Tamara Ecclestone
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Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.
Sam Altman
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'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
Ayn Rand
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I never thought I'd be an action star, but now they're going to make little Xena action figures for kids. I still want to be a fine actress one day; it's just a matter of putting in the time and passion.
Lucy Lawless
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I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
Dido Armstrong
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
J. J. Abrams
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
Edie Campbell
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Trash talk is dangerous, especially when it comes from hearsay.
Yolanda Hadid
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The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
Brennan Manning
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Trust is a chain that gets longer the less you pull on it.
Neil Strauss
