E. Fuller Torrey Quotes
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
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A curious paradox: people have only the narrowest private interest in mind when they act, yet they are at the same time more than ever determined in their behavior by the instincts of the mass. ... The diversity of individual goals is immaterial in face of the identity of the determining forces.
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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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I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.
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Mental health courts exist because the system has failed.
