John Forbes Nash, Jr. Quotes
I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
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People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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I am not a big facial person. But I do love a body scrub.
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I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.
