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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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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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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I'd definitely love to be a spokesperson for a major beauty brand.
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We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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If you make great music, you can become a mold breaker or a trailblazer. It's a little scary to do that because you can't always see what's in front of you, but you're clearing out a path for people behind you to follow.
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
