Matt Haig Quotes
To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.'
Quotes to Explore
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
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Suum cuique decus posteritas rependit
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he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.
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A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.
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Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.
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If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.
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To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.'
