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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By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.
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So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just one of the young warriors from Stunts Unlimited that got to be a part of it because it was a big show and they needed a lot of guys.
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Optimism is cowardice.
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I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.
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Faith is a private issue. At least, I consider it to be one.
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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.
