Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.
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If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.
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I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
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When you work with people who are so passionate about their product it's kinda inspiring.
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I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
