Willard Gaylin Quotes
Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
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And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win - which they probably won't - you shouldn't do it because it's not healthy if they get the feeling that they're not good enough or they're not worthy.
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All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?
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One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
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On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.
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Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.
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Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."
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I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
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It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.
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Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
