Galen Strawson Quotes
You do what you do - in the circumstances in which you find yourself - because of the way you are. So if you're going to be ultimately responsible for what you do, you're going to have to be ultimately responsible for the way you are - at least in certain mental respects. But you can't be ultimately responsible for the way you are (for the reasons just given). So you can't be ultimately responsible for what you do.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.
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There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
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We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.
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You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.
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You do what you do - in the circumstances in which you find yourself - because of the way you are. So if you're going to be ultimately responsible for what you do, you're going to have to be ultimately responsible for the way you are - at least in certain mental respects. But you can't be ultimately responsible for the way you are (for the reasons just given). So you can't be ultimately responsible for what you do.
