Karl Abraham Quotes

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Think
  • Act
  • Tyranny

• The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

  

  Karl Marx
  • May
  • History
  • Movement

• With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Day
  • Dance
  • Sunday

• It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Beauty
  • Grace

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Government

• I get homesick.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Get
  • Homesick

• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Real
  • Blues
  • Captain

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Pain
  • Makes
  • Chicken

• I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Serious
  • Enjoy

• I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Work
  • Love
  • Think

• I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
  • saw
  • Six
  • Pilot

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • System
  • Cooperation

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

  

  Peter Cushing
  • Today
  • Fear

• I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Watching

• My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school, because I told them producing is what I love to do, and it makes me happy to share my music and my passion with others. I was dreaming to go to that school. I begged them. They were like, 'Yah, know what? If you are happy, we are happy.'

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Music
  • School
  • Happy

• Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Simple

• When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.

  

  Douglas Carter Beane
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

  

  Karl Abraham
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