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Robert Jay Lifton Quotes

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

Robert Jay Lifton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 16, 1926

Topics

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One of my favorite movies is Bette Davis in 'All About Eve,' and it is shocking there was no pressure on her to be likable.

Pressure Movies Her Favorite About

I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.

Love Growing Up Friends Doing Up

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

Myself Think Try Human Things Books

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Andy Goldsworthy

Day Night Building Process Sitting

Running gives me the confidence to be at my peak throughout the rest of my day.

Sterling K. Brown

Confidence Day Me Rest Peak Running

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or, to put it another way, you're at risk, and the people with you are at risk.

People Voice You Back Person Way

Opening for certain acts after so many years of headlining obviously made us resentful. It was kind of hard watching all these bands, who I really believed didn't deserve to be on top musically, going ahead and pushing us out.

Kind Ahead Deserve Top Watching Out

I always say that AMC hires filmmakers, and they let them be filmmakers.

Michelle MacLaren

Say Always Them Filmmakers

I've been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first began trying to write stories. Many of the authors whose work I cherish the most were people I first learned about through The O. Henry Prize Stories - and then I'd go search for their books.

Work People College Reading Search

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

Better Hospitality Down Be Nice Nice

I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that.

Jonas Armstrong

Saying Remember Look Teachers Never

Style-wise, Valle Nevado is what can only be described as 'hip international.' Brazilians, Chileans and Europeans make the place seem like an electronic music festival transported to an remote Andean valley. Huge speakers blare out thumping, bass-heavy music, while promotoras stalk the staircases selling everything from Red Bull to mobile phones.

Jonathan Franklin

Music Red Selling Place Bull Phones

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