Barbara Brennan Quotes

We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment.

Barbara Brennan

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• Misdirect

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  Ian Rankin
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• I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

  

  Damian Woetzel
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• I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.

  

  Sam Altman
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• I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

  

  O. J. Simpson
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• The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.

  

  Ralph Marston
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• As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space.

  

  Dana Brunetti
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• The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
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• 'It is no hardship whatever,' said Aillas. 'You have never strained at the deed. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and suddenly you find the idea incredible. Do you not sense a taint of unreality?'

  

  Jack Vance

• I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.

  

  Margaret Drabble
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• Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.

  

  Benito Mussolini
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• It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.

  

  Win Butler
  • People
  • Up
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• We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Work
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  • Together

• Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

  

  Jerry Hall
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• When I have a few weeks off, I catch up with my friends, but after a week or so, I just can't wait to get back in to the boxing club and start training.

  

  Katie Taylor
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• I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.

  

  Freddie Hubbard
  • Up
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• I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

  

  Mary Crosby
  • Long
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• I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

  

  Lucy Walker

• I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.

  

  Chuck D

• I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.

  

  Herb Ritts
  • Enemy
  • Knowing
  • Names

• In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Different
  • Art
  • Help

• I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.

  

  Jeremy Northam
  • Good
  • Energy

• We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment.

  

  Barbara Brennan
  • Energy
  • Pain
  • Misdirect