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

• As Romeo is dying Juliet says ‘I am willing to die to remain by your side’ and love was never a static place of rest but the last second of euphoria while throwing yourself out from a 20 store window to be able to say ‘I flew before I hit the ground’, and it was glorious. Don’t be sorry. The fall was beautiful, dear. The crash was beautiful.

  

  Charlotte Erickson
  • Beautiful
  • Juliet
  • Euphoria

• Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

  

  Jacob Zuma

• The Simple Life is the last refuge of complicated and restless souls.

  

  John Buchan
  • Life
  • Simple

• Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

  

  Anne Parillaud
  • Free
  • Small
  • Violence

• In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, "This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for". No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.

  

  George Foreman
  • Waiting
  • Easy
  • Boxing

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

  

  Albert Ellis