Harry Stack Sullivan Quotes
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
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I like to support local record stores.
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I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.
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Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.
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He said, "Hi, gorgeous," which I think is nice. I admire honesty.
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Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.
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I'm not disappointed that I didn't get the record. I am very tired.
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I read many years ago how healthcare was organized in Ancient Chinese villages. They have a doctor, and this doctor was paid one egg or chicken by each family when each family member was healthy. When something goes wrong, they stop paying. So the doctor was motivated not to spend money for healing but to spend money for preventing disease. This the product. You should organize the system that way. The system as a whole is setting the product of maintaining health.
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For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.
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But I saw the pair of them, along with everyone else. Hard to miss. Him towering like a raggedy scarecrow in that flapping black scholar's gown, and the sword always quiet next to him, sweet as honey, and poison with it.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.
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When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.
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I'm a product of what I believe in.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.
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I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.
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If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
