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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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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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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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
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I spend a lot of time in the future, But to help the future, sometimes you got to go back to the past, and sometimes you got to stay in the present.
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It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.
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The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.
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If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all.
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If children could, if adults knew.
