Neil Cross Quotes
The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.
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My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
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Failures and setbacks are inevitable for all of us.
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People need role models, and they need to feel that there's this opportunity to learn. They need to have people that will stick up for them. I want to be a part of that.
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I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.
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The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.
