Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.
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Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.
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I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
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If children could, if adults knew.
