R. D. Laing Quotes
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of positive malevolence, at least of a suspicious and ruthless insecurity, which is characteristic more of a tyrant than of a wholly powerful and benevolent deity.
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Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith.
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There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".
