Edward Hallowell Quotes
People with ADD often have a special “feel” for life, a way of seeing right into the heart of matters, while others have to reason their way along methodically.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
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You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.
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Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
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The 1990's sure aren't like the 1980's.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time.
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I learn something new about love every day. For example, loving yourself is just as important as loving other people.
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I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.
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I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.
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A small number of people can make a lot of noise.
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For me, being a writer, you want to communicate with people, but if your goal is that every person is going to love what you do, then you're always going to be disappointed.
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People with ADD often have a special “feel” for life, a way of seeing right into the heart of matters, while others have to reason their way along methodically.
