Edward Bernays Quotes
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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I never believe in going to America with my show reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm way too insecure and too proud.
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'That guy was a homo - as sure as you're alive.' - Robertson, describing a caller during his appearance on the Larry King Show (Windows Media Video)
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History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
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Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.
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In the constitution of that rational animal I see no virtue which is opposed to justice, but I see a virtue which is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.
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All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?
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He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
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Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldn't do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains.
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If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.
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Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.
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I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory.
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
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In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.
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In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
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All of the men on my staff can type.
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Men people are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.
