Albert Ellis Quotes
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
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The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
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Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
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You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it's a little overwhelming. If I'm just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses - those kind of things.
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Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.
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Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.
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Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
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It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
