Anais Nin Quotes

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

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• Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Free
  • Kind
  • Present

• I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Like
  • Hang

• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Internet
  • Big

• You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Help
  • Society

• While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Actor

• It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Period
  • Wanted

• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• I never want to put my name on something that I don't love or wouldn't wear myself.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Name

• Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit

  

  Ovid

• A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dance
  • Charity

• Despite the fact that meat is made from dead animals, it shouldn't smell that way. Try this test for meat freshness: close your eyes and see if you can tell the pork chops from a gym locker.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Eyes
  • Gym

• the death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize (cont)

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Death

• The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

  

  Aeschylus

• I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Experience

• You're starting to see a lot of fighters, like, 'We want more money so we can be able to retire eventually,' instead of, we get to 30 years old, and we're like, 'Alright, I think Costco has openings.'

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Money

• People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • People

• I know what I want, and I'm relentless in achieving what I want.

  

  James Lassiter

• 'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Together

• The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

  

  Jorja Smith
  • People
  • Money
  • Value

• Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.

  

  Waverley Root
  • Wine
  • Cooking
  • Dinner

• I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Important
  • Book
  • Success

• In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • World
  • Fun
  • Night

• Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

  

  Anais Nin