Sigmund Freud Quotes

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Sigmund Freud

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CultureManPowerfulIndependent

I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.

Jim Gaffigan

ActingActorNeverAlwaysPlanned

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

Joan Armatrading

MeOverYearsDifferentWhoCertain

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

John Cusack

FriendshipTechnologyCoffeeTrust

For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.

Meghan Daum

LifeSportsVictoryBelongingGroup

A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.

Matthew Underwood

GirlCharacterI AmThoughtFake

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

Rosanna Arquette

LoveMusicSadGreatMeMusicians

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.

Ron Shock

ComedyNeverWriteJokeCallJust

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

MyselfResearchEnoughHumanityJust

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a 'fresh' brain - one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read.

Maryanne Wolf

BrainReadingSpeakThinkGeneration

After four seasons with Tottenham, where I had grown as much as possible, I needed new challenges for the sake of improving.

Luka Modric

ChallengesSeasonsNewPossibleFour

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

Joyce Carol Oates

MyselfSchoolWritingHigh School

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

Bonnie Raitt

FamilyMePoliticalLos AngelesUp

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