Erik Erikson Quotes
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.
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Once you’re out of the classroom, you might vow never to open another book, after being force-fed their contents for so many years. But know this: Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
