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Mortimer Adler Quotes

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: December 28, 1902 - June 28, 2001

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Love Woman Man Find Choice Person

You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials.

Someone You Understand Trials Gotta

The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

Jesse James Garrett

Time Creative Problems Face Better

I was this little kid writing songs. I look back at having that dream, and it's weird. Being able to do it and live out your dream on any scale is amazing. I don't take any of it for granted at all.

Live Amazing Writing Weird Look Kid

I'll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those guys back into the dugout. But it's not a good thing when you're over more than a third of the plate.

Good Habit You Back Too Much Want

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

Music Myself Black Reach Accept

I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Work Yourself Think You Down Way

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

Small Survival Cooperation Human Nor

Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.

Crazy You Know Right Hearing Launch

As an athlete, that's something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it's in a job, or you miss something else, but you learn how to do it better next time. You learn it in sports. That's a life lesson.

Life Sports Time Day Job Me

I've learned not to buy into what other people say. I've learned not to put dreams in other people's hands.

Dreams People Hands Say People Say

I hate sport. I like girlie things.

Hate Things Like Sport

I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby. Living in the Bronx or Brooklyn was incredible... for me, that was like a foreign country.

Me Friends Brooklyn Country Living

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