Jordan Peterson (Jordan Bernt Peterson) Quotes
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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I would tell the young Francesco Totti to repeat everything that the older Totti did - if he's able to!
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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For me, I love Marc Anthony a lot. He's one of my dad's favorite artists, and I listened to him a lot growing up.
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I didn't really realize I was a woman director until I walked onto the set at Pinewood Studios when I did 'Mamma Mia!' and everybody was calling each other 'Governor' and 'Sir'... and then, looking at me, 'Well... good morning!'
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They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one.
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I don't ever feel like I have it all together.
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Nothing sounds worse than having to be surrounded by people you don't like in a sequined dress.
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The day I got to Los Angeles after I got traded, Chase Utley was the first guy I saw. He welcomed me. He gave me a big hug. He was, like, 'You. You are my brother.'
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Who would have ever thought that I'd end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that's what I want to be.
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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
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People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all.
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You know who doesn't get the death penalty? Crazy people. That's a defense in America. My client's crazy. He doesn't know what he did. Fine, then he doesn't know we're gonna kill him. If a guy's that retard, you put him the electric chair and tell him it's a ride.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.
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Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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Just cause you are a failure does not mean you are an artist.
