Albert Ellis Quotes
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live.
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Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
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My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.
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Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.
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Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
