Karl A. Menninger Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.
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The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
