Warren Farrell Quotes
Any guy who’s played team sports has practiced a skill I call 'team sport empathy': he’s practiced focusing on anticipating the other team’s moves. That means figuring out their way of looking at the situation.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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Any guy who’s played team sports has practiced a skill I call 'team sport empathy': he’s practiced focusing on anticipating the other team’s moves. That means figuring out their way of looking at the situation.
