Robert Jay Lifton Quotes

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

Robert Jay Lifton

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MyselfHealingDoctorEarlyWhite

When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.

Jim Cantalupo

BusinessYouWayLineBottomSure

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

Jen Kirkman

ThinkSomeoneFirstNeedImprov

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

John F. Kennedy

WisdomKnowledgeIgnoranceMoreOur

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

Andrew Sean Greer

EmpathyWritingFictionAct

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Andrew Jackson

PeaceSometimesBloodThingsAbove

And generally the shows I'm in fail really big.

Megan Gallagher

FailBigShowsReallyGenerally

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

Ani DiFranco

LifeMusicMyselfAngerMeChill

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

Steve Sabol

InspirationalMusicFootballTheatre

I am keenly aware that in writing about my mother, I am writing about my aunts' sister, and that in writing about my grandmother, I'm writing about their mother. I know that my honesty about how my view of these people has changed over the years may be painful.

Tracy K. Smith

MotherHonestyI AmPeopleSister

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

Roger Corman

BestMoneySayingDownNeverFilm

I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book.

Ruth Rendell

BookLikeMuchVeryKindle

I just want a guy that is secure with himself and is not intimidated by what I do and how I can provide for myself, because I don't need a man for that, nor have I ever looked for a man to just take care of me.

Rozonda Thomas

MyselfManMeCareTake CareI Can

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