Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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I was very rebellious.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
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I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
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I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.
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Human opinions are formed by accident and hardened by repetition. We cling to acquired opinions only because they give the illusion of being wise opinions. This creates division and hostility between people.
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In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland Dutch 17th century painters
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I bust raps like the boys bust gat shit.
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Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin. The Negro today asks justice. We do not answer him - we do not answer those who lie beneath this soil - when we reply to the Negro by asking, 'Patience.'
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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After all is said and done, sit down.
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.
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True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.
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I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that's what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.
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That doesn't sound like...the Jayster.
