R. D. Laing Quotes
Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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Once you become an actor, it's important to take care of yourself. I live in Santa Monica, where I can mountain bike, hike and go running on the beach. I like a nice sunset jog.
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The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
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So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.
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She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
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Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.
