Nathan Pritikin Quotes

The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.

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• I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Human
  • Logic
  • Hopeless

• Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Soul
  • Dreams
  • Window

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

  

  Adam McKay
  • House
  • Religious
  • Speak

• Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Professional
  • Ego
  • Everyone

• The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Important
  • Money
  • Revolution

• Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Sex

• The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • God
  • Team

• Friends, genuine friends, are attracted by a warm heart, not money, not power. A genuine friend considers you as just another human being, as a brother or sister, and shows affection on that level, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, or in a high position; that is a genuine friend.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Power

• When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Child

• The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Ideas
  • Things
  • Painter

• Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Person
  • Goal

• We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Wanted
  • Studio
  • Recording

• What you don't see backstage is what really controls the show.

  

  Sarah Sutton
  • Show
  • Controls
  • Backstage

• From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Political
  • Culture
  • Everyday

• Every single choice we make is either going to enhance the spirit or drain it. Every day, we're either giving ourselves power or taking it away.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Choices
  • Spirit

• I am fascinated by this partnership between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It's magic and I love it.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Partnership
  • Lady Gaga
  • Tony Bennett

• Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

  

  Josiah Royce
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Doubts

• The fiercest of beasts is the human. He kills even when he's not hungry.

  

  Adriano Celentano
  • Human
  • Hungry
  • Kills

• The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.

  

  Nathan Pritikin
  • Hungry
  • Miserable
  • Diets