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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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 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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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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At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.
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Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
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It felt so good and natural, I should have been on a horse my entire life. I fell in love with riding.
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In the US everybody is about what's new and what's next and they don't really build a real loyalty as much as in Europe - if you were ever good and they liked you, they will treat it with the respect that it still matters.
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I'm really into boots.
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I'm excited by the complete shift in attitudes. Twenty years ago, when I did my first report on colorectal cancer, there was tremendous resistance (from news directors).
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The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.
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There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.
