William Glasser Quotes
When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
Quotes to Explore
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It's those damn critics again.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.
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I don't believe that you have to dress in a masculine way to seem powerful. I think that the way a woman dresses doesn't have to be so aggressive. Being feminine is a powerful feature in itself. Power is in a person's demeanor.
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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
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I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show that the suppression of debate about Palestine and about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement - within many academic circles - does seek to establish those who would address such issues in speech as already collaborating with "terrorist" regimes, although now only Hamas is officially terrorist according to the US government and its allies.
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When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
