R. D. Laing Quotes
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
Quotes to Explore
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.
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Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.
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I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.
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I need to travel - I crave the power of the ocean and the trees give me so much energy to think.
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I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.
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To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
