Albert Low Quotes
It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
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For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
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Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
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I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.
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Saddam Hussein is not entitled to any presumption of innocence.
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You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
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I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.
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The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
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In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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To us ... the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality-the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical-as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously ... It would be most satisfactory of all if physis and psyche (i.e., matter and mind) could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality.
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My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
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It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.
