Jordan Peterson Quotes

The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that.

Jordan Peterson

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We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.

Jeremy Corbyn

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I actually was very proud of 'Dexter' and had a wonderful time doing it, which must make me an extremely weird person.

John Lithgow

TimeMeProudWeirdDoingPerson

Mental illness, unfortunately, is an invisible disease: it's not seen or heard. For whatever reason, because of that, society has decided that if we can't see it, maybe it doesn't exist, so they want to just sweep it under the carpet or say, 'Snap out of it,' or that you're looking for attention.

Mauro Ranallo

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I want life. I want to feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.

Matt Haig

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It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

John Travolta

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For other comics, it's about full-spectrum dominance, being on panel shows and having one-liners and being a good chat show guest and having a good seven minutes you can do on 'Live At The Apollo.' But I really think about these subsequent finished pieces, you know? And they don't always chop up well into one-liners and routines.

Stewart Lee

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There is a universality to comedy.

Simon Pegg

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I had a strong faith that I would, eventually, have a baby.

Trinny Woodall

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You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted.

Ruth Reichl

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So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

Chris Roberson

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What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

William Shakespeare

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I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

William Hague

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