Rollo May Quotes
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.
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Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. It's fascinating to me that the correlation between the two is almost the same - people don't talk about it so much, but they are almost equal in numbers.
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People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.
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Sometimes when you hire people who have to pass a Mr. Congeniality test, you end up losing some of the non-conformists who will give you different views and perspectives.
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I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.
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Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]
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I didn't come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star.
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Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
