Eric Berne Quotes
Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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Only silence perfects silence.
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I don't like to think of it as being fired. Instead, I prefer to think of it as being on indefinite leave with a sabbatical flair.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure...
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I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.
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I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.
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Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.
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Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
