Anthony Robbins Quotes
Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.
Quotes to Explore
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.
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How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.
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The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
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The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.
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I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.
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Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.
