David Keirsey Quotes
Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
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It's like deja-vu, all over again.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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McLaren was a risky project because they were completely new, but we are one team - we win and we lose together.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
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Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.
