R. D. Laing Quotes
There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
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I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.
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Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.
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L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.
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I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
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There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.
