David Leonhardt Quotes
Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
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Real revenge is making something of yourself.
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Whether you are Buddhist or not, whether you practice a religion or not, you have a mind, temporarily and all causes of happiness and suffering are in this mind.
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People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.
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Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.
