Jordan Peterson (Jordan Bernt Peterson) Quotes
It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.
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Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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I'm really happy in my own skin.
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I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.
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Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.
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I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.
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I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person; he doesn't relate to the person.
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I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.
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It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.
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It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.
