Eric Greitens Quotes
Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
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When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.
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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.
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I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me.
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.
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Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.
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The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.
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My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.
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When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.
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Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
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I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.
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If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.
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I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.
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Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.
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Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
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Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.
