Anthony Robbins Quotes
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.
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It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.
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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
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The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon. You had your own life; world events happened elsewhere.
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The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women's cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.
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If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
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Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.
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I like playing characters that have a prickly armor because when you start to see the cracks and some heart come out, it gives the audience something to look forward to.
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People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.
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I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
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We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivise young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.
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Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.
