Albert Ellis Quotes
I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
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Well, I can't figure out God.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.
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My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
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I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
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I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.
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I have nothing to do with Donald Trump.
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I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?'
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Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
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We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.
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I don't think it will ever be back to normal this year. That's just something I've got to deal with. It's going to be painful, but it's nothing I can't play with.
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I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
