Abraham Maslow Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I'm curvy.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.
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I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
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Erotic intelligence stretches far beyond a repertoire of sexual techniques. It is an intelligence that celebrates curiosity and play, the power of the imagination, and our infinite fascination with what is hidden and mysterious.
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I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
