Boris Sidis Quotes

The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.

Boris Sidis

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• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

  

  Larry King
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  • Brooklyn

• Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.

  

  Carl Hagelin
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  • Pride

• I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • World
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• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Time
  • Think
  • Age

• My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Change
  • Die
  • Old

• That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Finish

• Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Done
  • Together
  • Chance

• While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.

  Gail Devers
  • Body
  • Illness
  • Medication

• I'd say, specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League'; when that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that. But as far as the amount of people in a time, nothing touches when those Capital One commercials were playing.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • People
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• I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

  

  Brian Boitano
  • Done
  • Winning

• The more tools I have, the more freedom I have.

  

  Du Yun
  • Freedom

• The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

  

  Lord Acton
  • Experience
  • Power
  • History

• I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Good

• I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further.

  

  John Coltrane
  • Period

• We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.

  

  Ayanna Pressley
  • Racism
  • Result
  • Policies

• The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Worry
  • Instinct
  • Diseases