Sam Keen Quotes
A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring.
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My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
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To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.
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A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.
