Quotes 641 till 660 of 2622.
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I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
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I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
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I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
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I get rational when I panic.
Source: Rick Moody (2007) 46 -
I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
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I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.
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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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I got no thrill from solving an integral equation, but I did get a thrill from building an exotic piece of equipment that worked.
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I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
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I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.
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