Daniel Amen Quotes
The "18/40/60" rule to happiness: At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them. By age 40, they learn not to worry what others think. By age 60, they figure out that no one was thinking about them in the first place.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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The first wealth is health.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
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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 -
You will always have some excuse not to live your life.
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It's a building with a curious, difficult history that is inexorably linked to the history of Berlin, he said That's very potent. You can't make a show here without some reference to all of that. And it certainly makes a show here so much more interesting.
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There is a reality - so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography.
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I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.
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I'm going to name my daughter Emily.
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I tell actresses, "If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are." It's a business, and sex sells.
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I'd always been a very competitive boy - I hated coming second.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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I've twice accidentally stolen something, and both times I went back and paid for them when I realized I had done it.
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The "18/40/60" rule to happiness: At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them. By age 40, they learn not to worry what others think. By age 60, they figure out that no one was thinking about them in the first place.
