Sigmund Freud Quotes
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
Quotes to Explore
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I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.
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I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'
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I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
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Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.
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Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.
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The site will have two medical office-type uses. Basically, they'll be identical buildings.
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A hooker once told me she had a headache.
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Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.
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I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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I am a big fan of music in terms of storytelling device.
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There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
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Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.
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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
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We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
