Rollo May Quotes
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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'Mixtape' sounds retro! I used to make lots of mixed tapes. It was one of those '90s things - every girl gave them to her best friend. I remember exchanging a few with a boy on a bus when I was 14. I thought he hated me, but in hindsight, maybe he was in love with me, because he gave me the best music.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
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When I get on a plane, I kiss the plane and I tap it three times. If I don't do it... I have to do it. One time I sat in my seat and I had to get back up to touch the plane.
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I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.
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Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.
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I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.
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In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling.
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I am proud that in the Netherlands I can come out for my homosexuality, and I'd like to keep it that way.
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When I go home, I still have to clean my room; I still have to do the dishes. We have somebody come every now and then to do that stuff, but my mom still makes me clean before she comes.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.
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As I wrote about my childhood, I realized that there was no big tragedy. Being multiethnic is not a tragedy. I didn't have any big life-threatening illnesses, no tumors, no kidney malfunctions... I came from a very poor family. I was chubby as a kid.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
