Albert Ellis Quotes

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

Albert Ellis

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• Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Up
  • Movie
  • End

• When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • People
  • Meeting
  • Africa

• I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Real
  • Independent
  • Big

• I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Right

• I want to be a soldier as my father was.

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Father
  • Want
  • Soldier

• The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Sin

• No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • War
  • Inevitable
  • Breaks

• A lot of people don't want to deal with the effort needed to secure your bitcoins. That's why we started to build Gemini, which is a U.S.-based exchange with compliance - it's NASDAQ, E-Trade and DTC built into one.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Happy

• Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Law
  • Government

• A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Good
  • Real
  • Man

• I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Help
  • Brother
  • Door

• I climb mountains.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Mountains
  • Climb

• I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Life
  • Family
  • Dream

• In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Faith
  • Democracy
  • Politics

• It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Great
  • Funny
  • New York

• Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Men
  • Today
  • Direction

• When I decided to be an actor, years ago, I just said, 'Look, I'm not going to do this unless I can be the best,' but I don't know what 'the best' is.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • Know
  • Best
  • Look

• To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.

  

  Allison Glock
  • Woman
  • Born
  • Expectations

• At 16, every boyfriend I had I was going to marry.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Boyfriend

• It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Genius

• I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Roots
  • Blues
  • Cultures

• Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

  

  Albert Ellis