R. D. Laing Quotes

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

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• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Want

• Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Time
  • High
  • Education

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Rules
  • Old

• What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Freedom
  • Attention
  • Holocaust

• People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

  

  Saadi
  • People
  • Up
  • Ugly

• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Real
  • Blues
  • Captain

• You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

  

  Iman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Career

• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Drunk

• For my life, I need to make my own choices.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Choices
  • My Life

• Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Way
  • Hit
  • Los Angeles

• Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Children
  • Future
  • Flowers

• I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Girl
  • Tough
  • Reflect

• I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Children
  • Family
  • Wife

• We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Better
  • Mental Illness

• A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Up
  • Different
  • Words

• Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Feeling

• I know what I want, but it's physically beyond me now. I can work on what I can handle. It's a playoff between the object and my physical limits.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Work

• I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Life

• I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

  

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