Albert Ellis Quotes
I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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People have to evolve.
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
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There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
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I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.
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Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!' But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn't really there.
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People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
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Sometimes you do have a good time. But when it gets to the point where you're sitting in your home and you're just trying to cover what you don't want people to know. It's painful. And then you want more just so that you don't let anybody see you cry. Or anybody to see we're not happy.
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Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
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I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.
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I believe that Trump is a danger. I believe that he wants to tighten and build up his relationship to Russia for whatever reasons.
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I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
