Albert Ellis Quotes
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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I consider that of all the dashed silly, drivelling ideas I ever heard in my puff this is the most blithering and futile. It won't work. Not a chance.
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I would love nothing more than me and my family getting green cards, going to L.A. for a year, sitting down with the big Hollywood studios and coming up with the most advanced and awesome Internet distribution platform for movies. It would make Hollywood more money than cinemas, DVDs, and everything else combined.
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I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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I go to bed early, and normally before I do, I have a tea - it's a special tea that my doula gave me, and it takes about 25 minutes to make!
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A lot of the main audience thinks video game-based movies are always horror movies but it's totally not true. In video games you have adventure, sci-fi, horror, action and even comedy. I think that people should accept more that video games are kind of like the best-selling books of the new generation.
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I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
