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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A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.
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There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.
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An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates it, it is in perfect unison with the world. If it is not seen, the image and the object it represents belong together.
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
