Dennis Prager Quotes
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
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Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
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I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
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We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.
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I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.
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No arts, no letters - no society.
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Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
