Quotes with self-expression

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  • Billy Crudup Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Marlon Brando Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.
    Marlon Brando: The Only Contender, Gary Carey (1985) Ch 13
    Marlon Brando
    American actor, film director, and activist (1924 - 2004)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of ''artistic'' expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Aldous Huxley After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Kurt Cobain All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem.
    Rolling Stone Magazine, 16-04-1992
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Andrew Carnegie All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Sheldon Kopp All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
    Sheldon Kopp
    American psychotherapist and author (1929 - 1999)
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  • Sebastian Coe All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
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  • Evelyn Waugh Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Andrew Cohen Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Malcolm X America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • John W. Gardner America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Paula Nelson Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.
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  • Nicolas Chamfort An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
    Management Science Journal, October 1960
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Naomi Campbell Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
    Naomi Campbell
    English model (1970 - )
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  • Barry Eisler Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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