Daniel Amen Quotes
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.
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I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.
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I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.
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3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.
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'...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true...'
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I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.
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My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.
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I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.
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I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.
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Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.
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Remember, people make you who you are.
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Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.
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Miss Fontanne and I rehearse all the time. Even after we leave the theater, we rehearse. We sleep in the same bed. We have a script on our hands when we go to bed. You can't come and tell us to stop rehearsing after eight hours.
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Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.
