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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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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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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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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Pop music is probably the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the general public. The more people buy a record, the more successful it is - not only commercially but artistically.
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I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.
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So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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What the feminists and their ventriloquist puppet husbands are talking about doing with Government-Funded Daycare is raising children as if they were a herd of interchangeable swine. No surprise coming from a gender which has no ethics, no scruples, no sense of right and wrong. 3
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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.
