Wilfred Bion Quotes
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
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Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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I love to win. But probably equal to that - I love doing what I do.
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There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
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I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.
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I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
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When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
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I love coming to work every single day.
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The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Animation is just another way of telling a story.
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[On returning to the country] I went back to where I belonged.
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The strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at his best, their consistency in correcting his excesses, and the guidance they give him-will codetermine whether or not he eventually makes order out of necessary inner confusion and applies himself to the correction of disordered conditions. He needs freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that he cannot, in fact, make a choice.
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Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
