Nathaniel Branden Quotes
To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.
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Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
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As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.
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Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides.
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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
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Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
