Dmitri Alperovitch Quotes

Victims don't want to know they're victims. I guess that's just victim psychology: if you don't know about it, it's not really happening.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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• I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

  

  Ed O'Neill
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• I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

  

  Patricia Millett
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• Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Family
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• Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.

  

  Laetitia Casta
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• Golf and dating don't mix.

  

  Larry David
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• For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

  

  Walter Isaacson
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• To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

  

  Malcolm X
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• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
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• The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Page

• Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Goals

• Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Fight
  • Try

• The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Night
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• We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.

  

  Carl Crawford
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• It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

  

  Samuel Adams
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• I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
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• I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
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  • Blessings

• I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.

  

  Gary Bettman
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  • Integrity

• I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.

  

  Rajneesh

• In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Life
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• The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Desire
  • Pain
  • Responsibility

• I am interested in the ordinary sort of threat. I know that people are interested in things like serial killers and what have you, but actually, those aren't the sort of crimes that really happen very much. The sort of crimes that happen tend to be more of a domestic nature and quite banal, but the psychology behind them is always fascinating.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • People
  • Nature
  • Psychology

• It's not like you can say, 'This is the right side and this is the wrong side,' because obviously, a happy person is never going to want to inflict pain on somebody else. So the bullies are really victims themselves and yada, yada, yada, pop psychology, but it's true.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • True
  • Happy
  • Pain

• Victims don't want to know they're victims. I guess that's just victim psychology: if you don't know about it, it's not really happening.

  

  Dmitri Alperovitch
  • Psychology