Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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I don't come from any great culinary tradition - I'm from London!
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I'm not a movie star, but I've been an actress forever, and the first time I went on a date with my husband, he said to me, 'So I hear you're an actress. I've never seen anything you've done.' We were like, oh gosh, 21 when I met him, and I laughed, because I'd done 'Life Goes On,' and 'Christy,' and I mean, I'd been working forever.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
