Sigmund Freud Quotes

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

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• I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Think
  • Career
  • Theatre

• I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Like
  • Been
  • Skating

• I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Individual
  • Victims
  • Hypocrisy

• It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Sweet
  • Laundry

• I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Way
  • Always
  • Born

• I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

  

  Amin Maalouf
  • Country
  • City
  • Road

• I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that people expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations.

  

  Lucas Neff
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• My favorite album is 'Ram' by Paul and Linda McCartney.

  

  Fred Armisen

• There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

  

  James Joyce
  • Church

• I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Up
  • Military
  • Service

• In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.

  

  Ben Marcus
  • God
  • Passion
  • Forever

• The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Great
  • Together

• The 'Will Powers' story is like my life to a certain degree.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Life

• Anything that's resolvable is boring, musically. And if it's too chaotic, you don't feel tension; it's chaos.

  

  James Murphy
  • Chaos

• I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Reality
  • Sorry
  • Reflection

• Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.

  

  Billie Whitelaw
  • Life
  • Up
  • Death

• The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may becooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Up
  • May
  • Kids

• “What’s going on?” asked Roberta, smashing through the branches nearby.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • What
  • Going On
  • Roberta

• Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Fire
  • Surrender
  • Voices

• In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate or rule over on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character, the further development or in-dept analysis, of the faculties of the intelligence, the refinement of the consciousness and of the heart, are considered incidental or subordinate things.

  

  African Spir
  • Life
  • Character
  • Science

• Even in Death they had a thing in common, Pain.

  

  Arin Paul
  • Death
  • Pain
  • Common

• We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

  

  Sigmund Freud
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