Robert Jay Lifton Quotes

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

Robert Jay Lifton

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The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

Andrew McCarthy

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Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

John Hurt

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Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

Maurice Druon

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If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

Steve Case

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I've worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let's talk about that.

Stephanie Beatriz

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The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.

Robbie Robertson

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Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that they exist.

Robin Sloan

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The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

Masi Oka

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Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Jules Feiffer

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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.

Don Rickles

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My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work.

Domhnall Gleeson

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I'm not trying to be someone I'm not.

Donny Robinson

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