Frederick Leboyer Quotes
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
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I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
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From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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I was a bad kid. I say this without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it. I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy. If what I have to say here helps even one of them avoid some of my own mistakes, or take heart from such triumphs as I have had, this book will serve its purpose.
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We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.
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… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
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Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
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Probably right at the end of JAG, I would love to have a child or two. I ultimately want to have two kids.
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This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.
