Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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Professional competitions are overrated.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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I've been involved in animal issues for quite a while, going back 24 years. I started reading up on factory farming and slaughterhouses and animal cruelty, and it didn't make sense for me to be part of it.
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Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films.
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For me, abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. I'll go further and say that abstraction is nearer my heart. I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
