Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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I originally just wanted to be an artist.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.
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Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.
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My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.
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Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
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I just wanted to be different; I didn't wanna sound like anybody else.
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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.