Neil Strauss Quotes

My goal is long-term happiness. And I make choices that aren’t going to undermine that goal.

Neil Strauss

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Air
  • Down
  • Windows

• No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Real
  • Family
  • Why

• The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Heart
  • Here
  • Miami

• The most important thing to me is how hard we go after the ball and take care of it.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Important
  • Me
  • Care

• As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • American
  • America
  • Strong

• The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • World
  • Art

• I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano.

  

  David Lambert
  • Family

• There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.

  

  Jock Sturges

• Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!

  

  Elizabeth McGovern
  • Couple

• Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

  

  Christopher Love
  • Men
  • Art

• Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.

  

  Jemima Khan
  • Attention
  • Criticism

• When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

  

  Lisa See
  • Time
  • House
  • Fall

• The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Imagination
  • Fiction
  • Regard

• God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.

  

  F. F. Bruce Quotes
  • Good
  • God
  • Children

• Much better than it has been all week. I got sick again this week, so I wasn't really able to breathe. I was on antibiotics (until Wednesday). This program was so great coming here. I felt more confident than I ever have all season, more calm, more relaxed, bending the knees. So even that program with the one mistake ... you can't be perfect all the time, but for me that was a great skate for me and I'm happy with how it went.

  

  Gabrielle Daleman
  • Mistake
  • Season
  • Program

• When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.

  

  Stephan Pastis
  • Friends
  • Term

• The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Way
  • Reputation
  • Atheist

• 'Footprints On The Moon' plans to inspire and incite positive and catalytic change.

  

  Raheem DeVaughn
  • Change
  • Positive
  • Inspire

• My goal is long-term happiness. And I make choices that aren’t going to undermine that goal.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Choices
  • Happiness
  • Goal