M. Scott Peck Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
