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Amy Bloom Quotes

Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.

Amy Bloom

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1953

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Love Think You Television See About

I think when science fiction is at its worst, it's just spaceships flying around shooting at each other. There has to be a lot more going on than that... science fiction is about exploring new worlds and new ideas, not about ray guns and action, necessarily.

Jeff Lemire

Science Ideas Action Flying Think

Certain foods, such as meat, appear to harbour toxic bacteria - known as endotoxins - that can trigger inflammation in your arteries, even when food is fully cooked.

Michael Greger

Food Toxic Meat Bacteria Your Even

A priest once said to me, 'Think of a priest going to the altar as you walk out on the stage.' I would hate to think that anyone thought I was coming to preach. But art and music open up things that you can't put into words. It's about bringing joy when you go out there.

Stephen Hough

Music Art Hate Walk Words Joy

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

Robert Baden-Powell

Food Pain Doing Animals Others Out

Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.

Robert Toombs

History Blind You Deaf Never Sixty

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Robert Wilson Lynd

War Short Dangerous Belief Human

My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling.

Judy Reyes

Mother Worth Telling Stories Maid

The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.

Juan Enriquez

Business Knowledge Mistakes Mistake

I've been rapping since I was 13.

Jay Pharoah

Been Since Rapping

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

Jose Bergamin

Water Perfection You Sometimes Drink

Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

Jonathan Haidt

Together Moral Order Compete Sense

Obviously, Jo and I, as a couple, we just don't want to redline. You know, we don't want to run so hard after some dream or some goal only to find out that we've neglected the thing that means the very most to us, which is our marriage and our relationship.

Chip Gaines

Marriage Relationship You Dream Goal